How to tell whether a library is static or shared?

[jwillikers]

When adding a library with the library function, how do you tell the type of that library? I need to only run an API-compatibility test for a library when it is built as a shared library.

[dcbaker]

library() is controlled by the default_library option. This can also include a "both" setting, so you probably want to test for "!static", something like:

lib = library(...)
if get_option('default_library') != 'static'
  if get_option('default_library') == 'both'
    lib = lib.get_shared_library()
  endif
  test(..., args : lib)
endif

[jwillikers]

Thanks, that's pretty close to what I'd reckoned, but I didn't specifically pull the shared library when both. I just had to change get_shared_library to get_shared_lib.