[poppler] poppler static compilation and linking with VC++ 2008

[Marco Antonio Pincheira]

Hi everyone.
I have been trying from a few days ago to generate a static version of 
the poppler library, specifically of the qt version (poppler-qt4), for 
using in Windows.
I was searching on the Internet, I found KDE Windows Initiative, where I 
could download the binaries and source codes from poppler and most of 
its dependencies, but cairo. The problem was that this binaries files 
were dynamic and, from the files with .lib extension (poppler.lib, 
poppler-cpp.lib, poppler-qt4.lib), only poppler.lib was a static library.
Due to this, and using the cMake files content in the download of the 
source code of poppler I tried to generate static versions from all the 
dependencies of poppler, which was an easy thing to do except with 
cairo, that was a little big harder to do using the msvc2008 compiler.
When I had the static version I tried to generate a basic application 
made in qt4, which has the poppler-qt4.lib library.
The mencionated application is the following:

#include "mainwindow.h"
#include "ui_mainwindow.h"

#include <poppler/qt4/poppler-qt4.h>

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
     QMainWindow(parent),
     ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
     QString filename = "C:\\file.pdf";
     ui->setupUi(this);
     Poppler::Document *doc = Poppler::Document::load(filename);
}

MainWindow::~MainWindow()
{
     delete ui;
}

The file with extension .pro is the following:

QT       += core gui
TARGET = poppler-static
TEMPLATE = app
SOURCES += main.cpp\
         mainwindow.cpp
HEADERS  += mainwindow.h
FORMS    += mainwindow.ui

and the error message I got with the link, is the following:
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) public: 
static class Poppler::Document * __cdecl Poppler::Document::load(class 
QString const &,class QByteArray const &,class QByteArray const &)" 
(__imp_?load at Document@Poppler@@SAPAV12 at ABVQString@@ABVQByteArray@@1 at Z)  
referenced in function "public: __thiscall MainWindow::MainWindow(class 
QWidget *)" (??0MainWindow@@QAE at PAVQWidget@@@Z)

The funny thing is that using the dumpbin tool from Visual Studio, when 
I execute the command: "dumpbin /headers poppler-qt4.lib", all the 
functions that the library contains appear and in the output generated I 
found this:

SECTION HEADER #25E
    .text name
        0 physical address
        0 virtual address
      155 size of raw data
     FA88 file pointer to raw data (0000FA88 to 0000FBDC)
     FBDD file pointer to relocation table
        0 file pointer to line numbers
        D number of relocations
        0 number of line numbers
60501020 flags
          Code
          COMDAT; sym= "public: static class Poppler::Document * __cdecl 
Poppler::Document::load(class QString const &,class QByteArray const 
&,class QByteArray const &)" 
(?load at Document@Poppler@@SAPAV12 at ABVQString@@ABVQByteArray@@1 at Z)
          16 byte align
          Execute Read

This makes a direct reference to the method that is called in the 
previous code shown.
Another important detail is that when I eliminate the inclusion of 
poppler-qt4.lib in the proyect's properties, I'm getting the same error, 
as if it's not being used and if I use the dynamic version the program 
gets compiled without any problem but the resultant executable asks for 
the respecive dll (logically).

I don't know if this is due to poppler more than to qt, but I'm going to 
post it in both to see if somebody can help me with this error, because 
I just can't understand the reason why the link fails if the library 
contains the right solicited function.

As an additional information, my operative system is Windows 7 64-bits 
and I'm using Visual Studio 2008. The application is compiled in release 
for 32 bits using the static build of qt 4.7.1 built with the msvc2008.

Thank you very much in advance to everybody who analize this.
Regards.