I attempted to build it statically-linked initially but was unsuccessful. I'll ask twobob what he did to compile it, since he did the initial kindle build (he hasn't been on IRC for like two weeks according to whowas). In the mean time, the libtinfo I used to link can be found in the ncurses package here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...7&d=1312879802
I've also attached the source code and the script I used to compile to this forum post. If anyone else wants to try compiling it or telling me some options to statically link post it here.