Re: Add option to disable shared libs

[Tony Theodore <tony.t@xxxxxx>]

> On 30 Oct 2017, at 03:03, Andreas Schneider <asn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> we support to build libssh as a static library but we do not encourage it. I 
> think you know what happens when you link your code with libssh statically.

What are the issues with static linking? I don’t use libssh myself, I just
packaged it for MXE (windows cross-compile)[1] and we separate static/shared
builds. It seems to work just fine.

Cheers,

Tony 


[1] https://github.com/mxe/mxe/blob/master/src/libssh.mk