[CMake] static libs and more

[Alin M Elena]

Hi,


> The main problem AFAIK for VS is that static and dynamic libraries are
> indistinguishable by extension. They both have a .lib one. And you don't
> know in advance is some library is static one or just import library for
> some dynamic one.
>
> For cygwin/mingw things may be more similar to Unix.
I do not really see the problem. They will have the same extension (*.lib) but 
they will have different names. The FindXXX.cmake is written by hand with in 
advance knowledge about the structure of the libs.

Alin

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