Reduce chrome.dll size by careful use of static_library

content/public/renderer/BUILD.gn

 # Copyright 2014 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.
 
 import("//build/config/features.gni")
 import("//content/renderer/renderer.gni")
 
 # See //content/BUILD.gn for how this works.
 group("renderer") {
   if (is_component_build) {
     public_deps = [
       "//content",
     ]
   } else {
     public_deps = [
       ":renderer_sources",
     ]
   }
 }
 
-source_set("renderer_sources") {
+if (is_component_build) {
+  link_target_type = "source_set"
+} else {
+  link_target_type = "static_library"
+}
+target(link_target_type, "renderer_sources") {
   # External code should depend on via ":renderer" above.
   visibility = [ "//content/*" ]
 
   sources = rebase_path(content_renderer_gypi_values.public_renderer_sources,
                         ".",
                         "//content")
 
   configs += [ "//content:content_implementation" ]
 
   deps = [
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     ]
   }
 
   if (enable_plugins) {
     sources +=
         rebase_path(content_renderer_gypi_values.public_renderer_plugin_sources,
                     ".",
                     "//content")
   }
 }