How to build dynamic (shared) libraries of crashpad?

Question

Crashpad is an error reporting system for c++ apps. https://chromium.googlesource.com/crashpad/crashpad/+/HEAD/doc/developing.md

build instructions are

Answer 1

after you generate ninja files, for each ninja file find the switch /MTd (debug) or /MT (release version) and change it to /MDd or /MD so the dynamic libs will be created

then you can build crashpad with ninja, the output is still lib files so they will be included in the exe file when you link them to your project (you do not have to add them to your project as using dlls).