linker error using static linking in g++ - g++

Question

I am using other people's makefile and get troubles when trying to compile a 'static' version of the exe
I have printed out the makefile's rules and the error is like this:
g++ Main.or System.or Options.or -Wall -lz --static -o main
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
If I do not include the '--static' option in the above command, it works fine.
The makefile also have rules to generate the static lib:
ar -rcsv lib_release.a Main.or System.or Options.or
r - Main.or
r - System.or
r - Options.or
Making Soft Link: lib_release.a -> lib.a
ln -sf lib_release.a lib.a

Answer 1

The -static linkage option instructs the linker to ignore all shared
libaries (libname.so) that could resolve the -lname linkage options (both explicit
and default) and accept only static libraries (libname.a). You have shared libraries installed on
your system that satisfy -lz, -lstdc++, -lm and -lc but no static ones.
For your linkage to work as it stands you must install the static libraries:
libz.a (Compression library)
libstdc++.a (The standard C++ library)
libm.a (The math library)
libc.a The standard C library
by the method that is appropriate to your distro.