From 9beade14e52900782ff355d0e9bfde088a96eb12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Rineau Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:49:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Modify the documentation: document CGAL_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS --- Installation/doc_tex/Installation/installation.tex | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Installation/doc_tex/Installation/installation.tex b/Installation/doc_tex/Installation/installation.tex index 12e4467f145..8a8bd08cfbd 100644 --- a/Installation/doc_tex/Installation/installation.tex +++ b/Installation/doc_tex/Installation/installation.tex @@ -555,11 +555,11 @@ This is not an issue for solution/project files, as there the user selects the b \subsection{Static vs.\ Dynamic Libraries } -Under Windows we only support the static versions of the \cgal\ libraries.On other platforms -the shared version ({\tt .so}) are build by default. -You can choose to produce static libraries instead by setting the \cmake\ variable {\tt BUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS=FALSE} - -These setting affect the variants of third-party libraries selected whenever the choice is available. +Shared libraries ({\tt .dll} on Windows, {\tt .so} on Linux, {\tt .dylib} +on MacOS) are build by default. You can choose to produce static libraries +instead by setting the \cmake\ variable +{\tt CGAL\_BUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS=FALSE}. If you use \texttt{cmake-gui}, that +variable appears as a checkable option in the graphical interface. \subsection{Multiple Variants of makefiles}\label{sec:cmake-out-of-source}