> ./configure --disable-shared doesn't work?

No :(

Actually its a bit more difficult than that... attempting to cross
compile the library as a static is prooving dificult. After more
thoroughly reading the documentation on cross compiling and about the
lib as well as using --disable-shared I went back and modified
makefiles and configured accordingly, but to no avail. When I compile, I
get an error while compiling curl.exe, but that's no big deal since what
I care about is the library, I look in lib/.libs/ and find a
libcurl.a. When I compile my program and run it, it still complains
about not locating the dll file.

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Okay scratch the above, I have figured out some things, first, I have 
multiple directories for my cross compiler libs and that I have multiple 
copies of libcurl.a lying around (no doubt caused by my many attempts at 
getting a cross compiler working). After resolving that I found another 
problem (will this helpless noob feeling ever end?), 
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i586-mingw32msvc-g++ baf-0.6.cc -o baf-6.exe -lcurl
results in approximately 400 lines similiar to the following:
/tmp/fakeroot/curl-7.15.1/lib/transfer.c:2226: undefined reference to 
`__imp__curl_easy_strerror'
/tmp/fakeroot/curl-7.15.1/lib/transfer.c:2184: undefined reference to 
`_closesocket_at_4'
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mingw32msvc/3.4.2/libcurl.a(hostip.o): In function 
`create_hostcache_id':
/tmp/fakeroot/curl-7.15.1/lib/hostip.c:204: undefined reference to 
`__imp__curl_maprintf'
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mingw32msvc/3.4.2/libcurl.a(sslgen.o): In function 
`safe_strequal':
where as
«[zashi_at_solidus:baf]» i586-mingw32msvc-g++ -l curl  baf-0.6.cc -o baf-6.exe
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x432): undefined reference to 
`_curl_global_init'
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x43a): undefined reference to 
`_curl_easy_init'
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x450): undefined reference to 
`_curl_easy_setopt'
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x468): undefined reference to 
`_curl_easy_setopt'
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x54b): undefined reference to 
`_curl_easy_setopt'
/tmp/ccowUeJt.o:baf-0.6.cc:(.text+0x559): undefined reference to 
`_curl_easy_perform'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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I'm pretty sure I've compiled the library as static, and know for sure 
now that I'm referencing the right lib with -lcurl ....
My best guess is I compiled the library wrong, or I'm linking wrong.
~Zashi