Why: - So that you don't have to built HDF5 from source - To statically linked against an exact version of HDF5 How to test: - In both homebrew/apt, there's `.a` libs included - There's `hdf5-static` package in conda-forge which is now built on all platforms, plus openmpi/mpich flavors of it on linux/macos - In official .msi windows builds, maybe there's static libs too, needs checking