Add static as keyword to find_library

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
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@@ -1724,7 +1724,9 @@ the following methods:
   instead of a not-found dependency. *Since 0.50.0* the `has_headers` keyword
   argument can be a list of header files that must be found as well, using
   `has_header()` method. All keyword arguments prefixed with `header_` will be
-  passed down to `has_header()` method with the prefix removed.
+  passed down to `has_header()` method with the prefix removed. *Since 0.51.0*
+  the `static` keyword (boolean) can be set to `true` to limit the search to
+  static libraries and `false` for dynamic/shared.
 
 - `first_supported_argument(list_of_strings)`, given a list of
   strings, returns the first argument that passes the `has_argument`
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/find_library_static.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/find_library_static.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1b7fa9
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## Add keyword `static` to `find_library`
+
+`find_library` has learned the `static` keyword. They keyword must be a boolean,
+where `true` only searches for static libraries and `false` only searches for
+dynamic/shared. Leaving the keyword unset will keep the old behavior of first
+searching for dynamic and then falling back to static.