diff -ruN src\CMakeLists.txt src.new\CMakeLists.txt
--- src\CMakeLists.txt	Mon Mar 05 18:13:10 2018
+++ src.new\CMakeLists.txt	Tue Mar 06 17:03:28 2018
@@ -40,12 +40,7 @@
 caffe_option(CPU_ONLY  "Build Caffe without CUDA support" OFF) # TODO: rename to USE_CUDA
 caffe_option(USE_CUDNN "Build Caffe with cuDNN library support" ON IF NOT CPU_ONLY)
 caffe_option(USE_NCCL "Build Caffe with NCCL library support" OFF)
-if(MSVC)
-  # default to static libs
-  caffe_option(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build shared libraries" OFF)
-else()
-  caffe_option(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build shared libraries" ON)
-endif()
+caffe_option(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS "Build shared libraries" ON)
 caffe_option(BUILD_python "Build Python wrapper" ON)
 set(python_version "2" CACHE STRING "Specify which Python version to use")
 caffe_option(BUILD_matlab "Build Matlab wrapper" OFF)