diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_1.14.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_1.14.0.bb
index 8c75f93..1b05f3d 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_1.14.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-test/googletest/googletest_1.14.0.bb
@@ -10,11 +10,17 @@
 SRCREV = "f8d7d77c06936315286eb55f8de22cd23c188571"
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/googletest.git;branch=main;protocol=https"
 
-inherit cmake
+inherit cmake pkgconfig
+
+# allow for shared libraries, but do not default to them
+#
+PACKAGECONFIG[shared] = "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON,-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF,,"
+
 
 ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
 ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-dbg = "1"
 
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN}-staticdev = "1"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "${PN}-staticdev"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"