Building a real static binary

Hi, I've been trying to build a real static binary for easy deployment. So far, everything I've tried still links to libecl as a shared library; is it possible to have a static library of it, so that my static binary can bundle it? I guess I kind of want to shy away from building ECL myself, it's kind of a pain to require that for other developers working on this project. Regards, -- Florian Margaine