Help Compiling Static Binary

[Richard Heck]

For some time, I've been using the minidlna program to serve media to 
TVs, etc, in my house. Unfortunately, recent updates to the ffmpeg suite 
broke the program: Certainly library calls no longer work. I'm therefore 
trying to build a static binary against the last version of ffmpeg that 
worked.

I understand that these aren't fedora-supported programs, but I think 
the question is really more general, namely: how exactly one goes about 
building a static binary.

What I've done is:

     ./configure --enable-static
     make

But I get linking errors:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljpeg
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lid3tag
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsqlite3
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lavformat
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lavutil
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexif
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lFLAC
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -logg
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvorbis
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

The libraries are all there, though, where one would expect to find 
them. And non-static compilation works fine (with the right version of 
ffmpeg).

Is there something I need to pass to configure to make this work?

Alternatively, is it possible to install older ffmpeg libraries, etc, 
alongside the newer ones and tell minidlna to use those? If so, how?

Thanks,
Richard

PS I'll eventually raise other aspects of this sort of question at 
SourceForge, but.....