epics/lib/*/*.lib aren't static libraries

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Issue

Issue reported by @xiaoqiangwang here:

Under MSVC, the .lib files can have two meanings

• static libraries, as it is assumed here.
• import libraries which are to export dll symbols. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic-link_library#Import_libraries In the epics-base, the default (also in this recipe) is to build DLLs. So the .lib files are import libraries. Without them, other applications/libraries cannot build.

epics/lib/*/*.lib are currently in the epics-base-static-libs output. I don't think there is much benefit to split even more the recipe (with a devel output for example). Those files should just be moved to the main package instead (no epics-base-static-libs output for windows).

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