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# BUILD_SHARED_LIBS

Global flag to cause `add_library()` to create shared libraries if on.

If present and true, this will cause all libraries to be built shared unless the library was explicitly added as a static library. This variable is often added to projects as an `option()` so that each user of a project can decide if they want to build the project using shared or static libraries.

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