Problems with statical link of wxWidgets libs

[Lars Uffmann]

Hi everyone!

I'm kinda trying to get to the root of the following problem and would 
appreciate if someone could help me to tell apart wxWidgets dynamic from 
static library builds:

I built wxWidgets on MinGW using
   ./configure --prefix=/mingw
   make
   make install

which had me ending up with the lib files in /mingw/lib:
libwx_base-2.8.dll.a

...

and
wxbase28_gcc_custom.dll
...

I can compile and link programs just fine as long as I want to use the 
DLLs: the program will just expect the DLLs anywhere in the folders 
contained in PATH variable (or local folder).

However, if I link the executable with g++ -static, I get the linker 
complaining:
   ld.exe: cannot find -lwx_base-2.8

So - since the .dll.a was confusing me anyways, I tried both renaming 
the libraries to .a (since they seem to be the static versions) and 
linking from the MSYS shell, supplying the libraries as -lwx_base-2.8.dll
Both solutions "work" - meaning the linker will not complain, and 
produce an executable. However, this executable will be the very same as 
if I never used the -static linker flag, and require the DLL-files to run.

Can anyone tell me why my mingw gnu c++ linker is not creating the 
statically linked executable? Maybe I have not build the correct 
wxWidgets libraries? The .dll.a files start with !<arch> - which seems 
to be the correct file type for static libaries, so I am quite at a loss 
here...

Thanks in advance!

   Lars