[2.6.3, Unicode, MSLU] minimal will not work under Windows 98

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Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>  This means that you didn't put unicows.lib in the very beginning of the
> linker command line when building your program. This lib must come before
> all the other libraries, so you need just fix the libraries order and
> relink.
> 
>  Good luck,
> VZ

Well this is a strange thing.
When I build wxWidgets as DLLs (adding unicows.lib to each DLL project) 
and then build the minimal sample it works (launches under Windows 98).
But when I try to build it with wxWidgets linked statically the 
LoadLibraryW fails.
See the linker settings bellow (it looks like I'm making some stupid 
some mistake each time):

/OUT:"vc_mswud\minimal.exe" /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO 
/LIBPATH:".\..\..\lib\vc_lib" /NODEFAULTLIB:"msvcrtd" /DEBUG 
/PDB:".\vc_mswud/minimal.pdb" /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /MACHINE:X86 
unicows.lib wxmsw26ud_core.lib wxbase26ud.lib wxtiffd.lib wxjpegd.lib 
wxpngd.lib wxzlibd.lib wxregexud.lib wxexpatd.lib winmm.lib comctl32.lib 
rpcrt4.lib wsock32.lib odbc32.lib  kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib 
winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib 
oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib

Thanks for any clues
Janusz