Hi, Please forgive me if this is a question that I should have been able to find myself. I did search the archives and check the man page (though it got a bit too confusing and I may have missed what I was looking for). I need to know how to static link a particular lib in a file. I suppose this is more a linker question and not a compiler question - please let me know if there is a different list I should ask on. My particular issue is doing a static link of openssl in a php 5.2.0 build - but of course general help is fine. Also, is there a "standard" arg to pass to autoconf to do this? I have had many instances with various open source software where a static link of the whole program or just some libs would have made life easier. If I could do this using ./configure args it would be great (would rather not have to modify the makefiles and always have my own non-pristine sources). All advice is very appreciated. Thanks.