no static library in libgpg-error 1.8?

[Simon Josefsson]

Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:07, simon at josefsson.org said:
>
>> I see that static libraries were disabled by default with version 1.8,
>> but there is no discussion about it in NEWS or anywhere else as far as I
>> could tell.  Building it with --enable-static appears to work.
>
> This happened during the update of libtool about a year ago.  As you
> noted this is only about the default.  There might be a problem under
> Windows with static libs (no dllmain for TLS init).
>
> Aren't static libraries supported anymore?
>
> No.  We still support static libs (maybe except for Windows - see
> above).

Is the dllmain code required for proper functionality?  Some people
build static Windows executables of GnuTLS and libssh2 libraries, so the
Windows platform was actually the reason I asked (it stopped working
when I upgraded libgpg-error 1.8 and forgot to add --enable-static).

/Simon