Where am I supposed to change WITH_STATIC_LIBS?

Building Blender
1

It’s my first time building a branch with static linked libraries.
This page says to set WITH_STATIC_LIBS to ON but it doesn’t say in which file and this string is located in multiple files, 3 of which having an ON or OFF somewhere after it:

$ grep -r WITH_STATIC_LIBS
build_linux/CMakeCache.txt:WITH_STATIC_LIBS:BOOL=OFF
blender/CMakeLists.txt:	option(WITH_STATIC_LIBS "Try to link with static libraries, as much as possible, to make blender more portable across distributions" OFF)
blender/CMakeLists.txt:	if(WITH_STATIC_LIBS)
Binary file blender/.git/objects/pack/pack-956d3fffa53d7df72d4fed4333ae2e6b9cbda1e3.pack matches
blender/build_files/cmake/platform/platform_unix.cmake:	set(WITH_STATIC_LIBS ON)
blender/build_files/cmake/platform/platform_unix.cmake:	if(WITH_STATIC_LIBS)
blender/build_files/cmake/platform/platform_unix.cmake:		if(WITH_STATIC_LIBS)
2

It’s a cmake option pass -DWITH_STATIC_LIBS=On to it

3

on which make command? The one you run in the git directory or the one in the build directory?

4

cmake and make are not the same thing. On the link you gave scroll up to ’ Editing CMake Parameters`

5

Oooh, wait, is Static Linking a sub-paragraph of it?

6

Not sure, but it’s prior knowledge you need, here’s a direct link to the section : Editing CMake Parameters

7

Well thanks @LazyDodo