Static Lib Building

[AlvaroBarua]

Hi,

Just added a way of building the library as a static lib, in my specific use case, I was using NOGDI under Windows, which causes the library to not compile. The reason I didn't just removed the define is that it causes some of my apps enums to be invalid (eg: OPAQUE, TRANSPARENT - which are defined in wingdi.h) and also I prefer to keep the OS bloat to the absolute minimum in the main project and this change achieved both of my goals.

Might defeat the purpose of the library and not taken into consideration, but it still keeps the ability of using it as a single header lib, its just an added bonus way of using it.

Cheers,
Alvaro

[AlvaroBarua]

Just noticed that I obliterated the files, might have been line endings, if this gains any traction I'll fix it for a proper merge.

[samangh]

@AlvaroBarua note that your CMake recipe does not build a static library, unless BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is turned off elsewhere in your CMake project.

Also, this has been discussed in #33

[AlvaroBarua]

From CMake docs:
Calls to add_library() without any explicit library type check the current BUILD_SHARED_LIBS variable value. If it is true, then the default library type is SHARED. Otherwise, the default is STATIC.

Since the cmake file doesn't specify any value for BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, it will build a static library.

It is only in the case that the parent project has set the value as cached that it would fail.

[samangh]

From CMake docs:
Calls to add_library() without any explicit library type check the current BUILD_SHARED_LIBS variable value. If it is true, then the default library type is SHARED. Otherwise, the default is STATIC.

Since the cmake file doesn't specify any value for BUILD_SHARED_LIBS, it will build a static library.

It is only in the case that the parent project has set the value as cached that it would fail.

Yes, thanks for the correction. For some reason I had that the other way around in my head!