[emidln]

I don't know what you're talking about. This is trivial to accomplish using `linkstatic` as documented on `cc_library` and `cc_binary`. I uploaded a demo to github here: https://github.com/emidln/bazel_static_dynamic_c_demo/blob/m...

Try it out like this:

    # you'll need a c compiler installed, xcode is fine on macos
    git clone https://github.com/emidln/bazel_static_dynamic_c_demo
    cd bazel_static_dynamic_c_demo
    bazel run //:foo
    ldd bazel-bin/foo  # otool -L bazel-bin/foo if you're on MacOS

[en4bz]

qux is now forced to be static. Consumers should be able to choose whatever they want. I don't know what end users want to do.

[emidln]

*You are the consumer.* You are consuming it in foo. Are you building some straw man consumer who might want to delve into my build and rearrange my libraries with no work at all? You can even do that if you want. Remove the linkstatic line from qux. Now it has two outputs: `libqux.a` (default) and a `libqux.so` (implicit). If you want to ship both of them in a release artifact, you can. If you want to mark some binaries `linkstatic = True` and statically link them you can. If you want to dyanmically link some binaries, you can do that too.

I was demonstrating that you can force some libraries to be only static and still partially link some things static and some dyanmic. If you want to get really into the weeds, you could even affect the link line and individually pick dependencies in a custom rule (that is fully compatible with the rest of the bazel tooling). Almost nobody ever needs to do that, but maybe you want to make only every other dependency dynamic to satisfy some weird slide in a talk.