diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 1fe4c76..96be699 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -354,11 +354,9 @@ if (USE_SYSTEM_LIBBSON)
 
    set (USING_SYSTEM_BSON TRUE)
    if (NOT TARGET mongo::bson_shared)
-           message (FATAL_ERROR "System libbson built without shared library target")
    endif ()
    set (BSON_LIBRARIES mongo::bson_shared)
    if (NOT TARGET mongo::bson_static)
-           message (FATAL_ERROR "System libbson built without static library target")
    endif ()
    set (BSON_STATIC_LIBRARIES mongo::bson_static)
 endif ()
diff --git a/src/libmongoc/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libmongoc/CMakeLists.txt
index 74c541f..737e566 100644
--- a/src/libmongoc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libmongoc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ set (
    "${SOURCE_DIR}/src/uthash"
 )
 
-if (ENABLE_SHARED)
+if (NOT MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD)
    add_library (mongoc_shared SHARED ${SOURCES} ${HEADERS} ${HEADERS_FORWARDING})
    if(WIN32)
       # Add resource-definition script for Windows shared library (.dll).
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ if (ENABLE_SHARED)
                RUNTIME DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}")
    endif () # ENABLE_SHM_COUNTERS
 
-endif () # ENABLE_SHARED
+endif () # NOT MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD
 
 if (MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD)
    add_library (mongoc_static STATIC ${SOURCES} ${HEADERS} ${HEADERS_FORWARDING})
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ if (MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_INSTALL)
    list (APPEND TARGETS_TO_INSTALL mongoc_static)
 endif ()
 
-if (ENABLE_SHARED)
+if (NOT MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD)
    list (APPEND TARGETS_TO_INSTALL mongoc_shared)
 endif ()
 
@@ -1327,6 +1327,7 @@ endif()
 set_property(TARGET ${TARGETS_TO_INSTALL} APPEND PROPERTY pkg_config_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${MONGOC_HEADER_INSTALL_DIR}")
 
 # Deprecated alias for libmongoc-1.0.pc, see CDRIVER-2086.
+if (NOT MONGOC_ENABLE_STATIC_BUILD)
 if (MONGOC_ENABLE_SSL)
    configure_file (
       ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/libmongoc-ssl-1.0.pc.in
@@ -1337,6 +1338,7 @@ if (MONGOC_ENABLE_SSL)
       DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig
    )
 endif ()
+endif ()
 
 include (CMakePackageConfigHelpers)