IMAP c-client compile weirdness

I'm getting a strange compile error which appears to disable IMAP functions. The error I get is ... *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lc-client. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library *** or is declared to -dlopen it. any thoughts? I've installed c-client according to the instructions in the manual, and I cannot find any thing else. thanks Jason