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INSTALL-CMAKE.md: mention focus on shared libraries

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Match what the INSTALL.md document says for configure builds.

Reported-by: Nemos2024 on github
Fixes #14845
Closes #15168
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@ -107,6 +107,25 @@ Build (you have to specify the build directory).
$ cmake --build ../curl-build
## Static builds
The CMake build setup is primarily done to work with shared/dynamic third
party dependencies. When linking with shared libraries, the dependency "chain"
is handled automatically by the library loader - on all modern systems.
If you instead link with a static library, you need to provide all the
dependency libraries already at the link command line.
Figuring out all the dependency libraries for a given library is hard, as it
might involve figuring out the dependencies of the dependencies and they vary
between platforms and can change between versions.
When using static dependencies, the build scripts mostly assume that you, the
user, provide all the necessary additional dependency libraries as additional
arguments in the build.
Building statically is not for the faint of heart.
### Fallback for CMake before version 3.13
CMake before version 3.13 does not support the `--build` option. In that