diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8944d446..a2e7273d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8)
 project (benchmark)
 
-option(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_SHARED  "Enable building a shared library." OFF)
 option(BENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING "Enable testing of the benchmark library." ON)
 # Make sure we can import out CMake functions
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 34bdc5f9..5368a4ac 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ before_build:
   - if "%generator%"=="MinGW Makefiles" (set "PATH=%PATH:C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin=%")
 
 build_script:
-  - cmake -G "%generator%" "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=%variant%" "-DBENCHMARK_ENABLE_SHARED=%shared%"
+  - cmake -G "%generator%" "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=%variant%" "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=%shared%"
   - cmd /c "%build%"
 
 test_script:
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index b0542543..eebed294 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@ else()
   message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to determine the source files for the regular expression backend")
 endif()
 
-# Build the benchmark library
-if (BENCHMARK_ENABLE_SHARED)
-  add_library(benchmark SHARED ${SOURCE_FILES} ${RE_FILES})
+add_library(benchmark ${SOURCE_FILES} ${RE_FILES})
+
+# Link threading if building a shared library.
+if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
   find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
   target_link_libraries(benchmark ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
-else()
-  add_library(benchmark STATIC ${SOURCE_FILES} ${RE_FILES})
 endif()
 
 set_target_properties(benchmark PROPERTIES