Question

I want to compile moongose with static library of libssl .
I have given .a file with -L option.
But still it is loading .so file.
why ?
how can I force it to use static lib ?

Answer 1

Run compilation under strace, to look where .a file is being searched and why .so is loaded instead.

EDIT
By default moongose loads SSL dynamically. To change this compile it with NO_SSL_DL macro. Add -DNO_SSL_DL to compilation command line. See this link.