Why doesn't Libtool want to link to a static library?

I want to create a shared library using ZipArchive using GNU Autotools, but I had this problem:

Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lziparch.
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
because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting
with libziparch and none of the candidates passed a file format test
using a file magic. Last file checked: /usr/local/ZipArchive/ZipArchive/libziparch.a
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.

If I create a static library or I use the ZipArchive shared library, it works, but the problem is that the make file that comes with the ZipArchive source code only creates a static library.

How to get Libtool to link to a static library?