This exists as a separate crate to work around cargo being unable to conditionally compile crate-types.
This leads to problems like emscripten being unable to link because symbols like logjs are not defined even if the cratetype is not actually desired. As a workaround, the capistaticlib and capidylib crates exist as endpoints to be built when those respective library types are needed.
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