Question: When added as subdirectory, CMake more often than not build Catch2.

[panwarab]

Description
When added as a sub-directory, CMake more often than build Catch2 ( which takes some time ) since it's added as a static library. Is it possible to expose Catch2 via dll?

Additional context

[ 90%] Building CXX object libs/Catch2/src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_predicate.cpp.o
[ 91%] Building CXX object libs/Catch2/src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_quantifiers.cpp.o
[ 92%] Building CXX object libs/Catch2/src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.cpp.o
[ 92%] Building CXX object libs/Catch2/src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_templated.cpp.o
[ 93%] Building CXX object libs/Catch2/src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/matchers/internal/catch_matchers_impl.cpp.o
[ 94%] Linking CXX static library libCatch2d.a
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/lightning-mcqueen/repo/codespace/build'
[ 94%] Built target Catch2

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[horenmar]

If you are linking the library, it has to be built. If you want to use single build across multiple projects, install it globally and then link against that.

[ChrisThrasher]

Closing this issue as Catch2 already supports static or shared builds as desired by the user.