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

webkit/webkit.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.
 
 {
   'variables': {
     'feature_defines': [
       'ENABLE_DATABASE=1',
       'ENABLE_DASHBOARD_SUPPORT=0',
       'ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT_DEBUGGER=0',
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             'include_dirs': [
               '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/os-win32',
               'build/JavaScriptCore',
             ],
           },
         }],
       ],
     },
     {
       'target_name': 'wtf',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         'config',
         '../third_party/icu38/icu38.gyp:icui18n',
         '../third_party/icu38/icu38.gyp:icuuc',
       ],
       'include_dirs': [
         '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore',
         '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/wtf',
         '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/wtf/unicode',
       ],
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         ['OS=="linux"', {
           'defines': ['WTF_USE_PTHREADS=1'],
           'direct_dependent_settings': {
             'defines': ['WTF_USE_PTHREADS=1'],
           },
         }],
       ],
     },
     {
       'target_name': 'pcre',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         'config',
         'wtf',
       ],
       'actions': [
         {
           'action_name': 'dftables',
           'inputs': [
             '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/dftables',
           ],
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         # ucptable.cpp is #included by pcre_ucp_searchfunchs.cpp and is not
         # intended to be compiled directly.
         '../third_party/WebKit/JavaScriptCore/pcre/ucptable.cpp',
       ],
       'export_dependent_settings': [
         'wtf',
       ],
     },
     {
       'target_name': 'webcore',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         'config',
         'pcre',
         'wtf',
         '../build/temp_gyp/googleurl.gyp:googleurl',
         '../skia/skia.gyp:skia',
         '../third_party/libjpeg/libjpeg.gyp:libjpeg',
         '../third_party/libpng/libpng.gyp:libpng',
         '../third_party/libxml/libxml.gyp:libxml',
         '../third_party/libxslt/libxslt.gyp:libxslt',
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         ['OS!="linux"', {'sources/': [['exclude', '(Gtk|Linux)\\.cpp$']]}],
         ['OS!="mac"', {'sources/': [['exclude', 'Mac\\.(cpp|mm?)$']]}],
         ['OS!="win"', {'sources/': [
           ['exclude', 'Win\\.cpp$'],
           ['exclude', '/(Windows|Uniscribe)[^/]*\\.cpp$']
         ]}],
       ],
     },
     {
       'target_name': 'webkit',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         'webcore',
       ],
       'include_dirs': [
         '../third_party/WebKit/WebKit/chromium/public',
         '../third_party/WebKit/WebKit/chromium/src',
       ],
       'defines': [
         'WEBKIT_IMPLEMENTATION',
       ],
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         'glue/webkit_strings.grd',
       ],
       'direct_dependent_settings': {
         'include_dirs': [
           '<(SHARED_INTERMEDIATE_DIR)/webkit',
         ],
       },
     },
     {
       'target_name': 'glue',
-      'type': 'static_library',
+      'type': '<(library)',
       'dependencies': [
         'webcore',
         'webkit',
         '../net/net.gyp:net',
         'webkit_resources',
       ],
       'actions': [
         {
           'action_name': 'webkit_version',
           'inputs': [
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             'default_plugin/default_plugin.gyp:default_plugin',
           ],
           'sources!': [
             'glue/plugins/plugin_stubs.cc',
           ],
         }],
       ],
     },
   ],
 }