It works fine, you just ship the static libraries. With static linking your binaries won't have dependencies anyway. That's not to say the static linking craze

It works fine, you just ship the static libraries. With static linking your binaries won't have dependencies anyway. That's not to say the static linking craze is a good thing. We'd be far better off finding a way to dynamically link templates, so you get the security benefits of automatically updated dependencies that dynamic linking gives you.