As of libmongoc 1.5.0, attempting to link applications against the static build of the driver will fail with the error that symbols like "__imp_bson_iter_init" and "__imp_mongoc_read_prefs_new" cannot be resolved.

Original description:

Linking with bson-static-1.0.lib, mongoc-static-1.0.lib, libbsoncxx.lib, libmongocxx.lib worked in version 3.0.1 but fails with 3.1.0:

1>libbsoncxx.lib(view.cpp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_init
1>libbsoncxx.lib(core.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_init
1>libbsoncxx.lib(view.cpp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_init
1>libbsoncxx.lib(view.cpp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_init_find
1>libbsoncxx.lib(view.cpp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_init_find
1>libbsoncxx.lib(view.cpp.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_bson_iter_next
etc, etc.