Reasoning for static library

[kayaercument]

Hello @burgholzer 👋

Thank you for your work on the repository! I realize that the QDMI library is a static library instead of a shared. Is there any particular reason for this?

[burgholzer]

Hey 👋🏼

It is not fixed to be a static library. You can simply pass -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON to the CMake configure step and it will happily build a shared library.
See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.html for more information.
This allows for quite some additional flexibility in the build system.
If it turns out we do not need that flexibility and we always want to build a shared library anyway, we can always add that back in.

[kayaercument]

Thank you for the explanation!

We had some problems while handling QDMI as a dependency. The solution is putting set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS ON) after FetchContent_Declare .

[burgholzer]

That certainly should work.
However, if depending projects do not build with QDMI being built as a static library, there is no added value by the flexibility and I would rather just mark the QDMI library as shared again.
I'll submit a PR later on 👍🏻