How can I link several static libraries into single shared library?

[michael kapelko]

Hi.
I want to link several static libraries into single shared library.
So far I'm trying to link ALURE(http://kcat.strangesoft.net/alure.html) 
static library into my shared library:

g++ -shared -o libmj.so  /usr/local/lib/libalure.a

But that leaves my libmj.so of 6K size, while libalure.a is of 1.5M. 
Looks like linker discards all unused symbols from libalure.
How do I force it to put *ALL* symbols from libalure.a into my libmj.so?
Thanks.