[mapserver-users] compilation question

[Puneet Kishor]

All these various components that Mapserver depends on (gd, which in 
turn depends on libpng and libjpeg and freetype; gdal; proj4, etc. 
etc.)... what happens to these during compilation?

Do they get statically embedded inside Mapserver, or do they have to 
hang around the computer somewhere only to be dynamically called by 
Mapserver as and when desired?

If the latter (dynamically linked), how is possible to do the former 
(statically linked)?

Tia,

pk/