Dear Bruno, actually I don't know how to do this here. I run configure with "-- disable-shared"; what else should I do? I fear that static linking is somewhat not easy, because it says in the man pages for gcc: "-static On systems that support dynamic linking, this prevents linking with the shared libraries. On other systems, this option has no effect. This option will not work on Mac OS X unless all libraries (includ- ing libgcc.a) have also been compiled with -static. Since neither a static version of libSystem.dylib nor crt0.o are provided, this option is not useful to most people." I tried to use the static flag with the result: "/usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o collect2: ld returned 1 exit status" Christian