Fix building of statically linked binaries + MSVC workflow

[kratz00]

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/shared_install /home/kratz00/coding/unshield

+-- bin
|   +-- unshield
+-- include
|   +-- libunshield.h
+-- lib
|   +-- cmake
|   |   +-- unshield
|   |       +-- unshieldConfig.cmake
|   |       +-- unshieldConfig-release.cmake
|   +-- libunshield.so -> libunshield.so.1
|   +-- libunshield.so.1 -> libunshield.so.1.6.2
|   +-- libunshield.so.1.6.2
|   +-- pkgconfig
|       +-- libunshield.pc
+-- share
    +-- man
        +-- man1
            +-- unshield.1

10 directories, 9 files


[kratz00@manjaro shared_install]$ file bin/unshield
bin/unshield: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=b4ced08f59ad119549dcbe737fd455c2cdf803a1, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, not stripped


cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/static_install -DBUILD_STATIC=ON /home/kratz00/coding/unshield

+-- bin
|   +-- unshield
+-- include
|   +-- libunshield.h
+-- lib
|   +-- cmake
|   |   +-- unshield
|   |       +-- unshieldConfig.cmake
|   |       +-- unshieldConfig-release.cmake
|   +-- libunshield.a
|   +-- pkgconfig
|       +-- libunshield.pc
+-- share
    +-- man
        +-- man1
            +-- unshield.1

10 directories, 7 files

[kratz00@manjaro static_install]$ file bin/unshield
bin/unshield: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c0feeb9c364a36d17c919453bc7d8ac86c710e47, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, not stripped
    

[kratz00@manjaro tmp]$ ls -lah *_install/bin/unshield
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kratz00 users  32K 29.03.2026 20:10 shared_install/bin/unshield
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kratz00 users 944K 29.03.2026 20:09 static_install/bin/unshield

[kratz00]

Looks like Apple does not support statically linked binaries: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1118/_index.html
I will exclude that combination from the build matrix.

[twogood]

If there are too many ifs and buts maybe just remove BUILD_STATIC?

[kratz00]

Where is the fun in that? I like a challenge and I am learning a lot of new things too.

[kratz00]

Everything is building successfully and without warnings (as far as I could see in the logs).

• the "shared" Windows builds (MINGW and MSVC) are not running, as the dll files are not found yet
• the "static" Windows builds (MSVC) only have some crashing test case (does not happen on the other compiler/platform combinartions)
• I had to comment the function call unshield_set_log_level(log_level); in unshield, because this symbol is not exported yet (seems to be related to the static int current_log_level)

I will continue after the holidays - Happy Easter holidays.

[twogood]

Great work and nice catch with unshield_set_log_level too!

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