With my patch to fix shared libXfont to work correctly on Cygwin/Win32, there is no need for -static anymore. But, XWin.exe must export its symbols in order for them to override libXfont's stubs. Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>