Basic underpinnings of the gyp equivalent of the Linux SHARED=1 build:...

chrome/third_party/hunspell/hunspell.gyp

 # Copyright (c) 2009 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 {
   'includes': [
     '../../../build/common.gypi',
   ],
   'targets': [
     {
       'target_name': 'hunspell',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         '../../../base/base.gyp:base',
         '../../../third_party/icu38/icu38.gyp:icuuc',
       ],
       'defines': [
         'HUNSPELL_CHROME_CLIENT',
         'OPENOFFICEORG',
       ],
       'sources': [
         'google/bdict.h',
@@ skipping 35 matching lines @@
           'cflags': [
             '-Wno-unused-value',
             '-Wno-unused-variable',
             '-Wno-write-strings',
           ],
         }],
       ],
     },
   ],
 }