Building gdk-pixbuf loaders as static libs

[John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk>]

I build the Windows version of our product (Mixbus) which utilises both 
pango and gdk-pixbuf.  Each library contains various 'modules' and for 
many years I've been building them as externally loadable DLLs (i.e. 
pango modules and gdk-pixbuf loaders).  We use the usual text files to 
tell Mixbus where to find them.  Unfortunately, this can be inconvenient 
on Windows because it isn't always easy to predict where Windows will 
install them (for example, lots of Windows users don't even have a C: 
drive).

A few weeks ago I discovered that it's possible to build pango's modules 
as static libs and link them to pango statically.  This was a big step 
forward for us and it was mostly just a case of reconfiguring my MSVC 
projects and #defining PANGO_MODULE_PREFIX in a few places.

Is it possible to do the same thing with gdk-pixbuf (i.e. link 
statically to the various pixbuf loaders)?  If so, is it similarly easy 
and/or are there any instructions anywhere that I could refer to?  Many 
thanks,

John