When does CMake choose a static link, when is this possible?

Question

I am working on a project that references SOCI, which ships both static and dynamic libraries. I would like CMake to select the static version when it was available, and the dynamic one otherwise. Is there any reasonable way to do this in CMake? So far, I have not seen anything, looking through documents.

Answer 1

It looks like you need to add CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS = -static