How To Link Statically? Options

[daniel3000]

Hello,

I'm not a development guru, but from time to time I compile programs on the zaurus.
One questions, because there are often problems with unresolved dependencies when distributing programs which are linked dynamically:

How can I switch to statical linking

a. when using the normal Makefile stuff most sources come with
b. when compiling without having a makefile, i.e. directly with
gcc -o binary source.c

And:
Is really everything linked in statically then, or only the direct dependencies, but dependencies of dependencies still dynamically, e.g. if a library needs a library...

Thanks
daniel