[xml] Howto statically link from a win32 client app

[Coleman Brumley <coleman brumley comcast net>]

Hello.

I apologize if this as been gone over in some detail before.

I'm building a win32 application which uses libxml2.  To simplify my 
application distribution, I'd like to statically link the libxml 
libraries and not require libxml2.dll et al be distributed.

I've tried #define LIBXML_STATIC in my client app, but it still tries to 
load libxml2.dll at startup.  I didn't think it would be that simple.  
:-)  I've also searched through the mail list archive and read the FAQ 
at xmlsoft.org and read zlatkovic.com. 

Do I need to recompile libxml2 from scratch for this to work? 

Thanks in advance.

Coleman