only default incremental linking on for ninja in shared_library

build/common.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 # IMPORTANT:
 # Please don't directly include this file if you are building via gyp_chromium,
 # since gyp_chromium is automatically forcing its inclusion.
 {
   # Variables expected to be overriden on the GYP command line (-D) or by
   # ~/.gyp/include.gypi.
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             'mac_keystone%': 0,
           }],
         ],
       }],  # OS=="mac"
 
       ['OS=="win"', {
         'conditions': [
           ['component=="shared_library"', {
             'win_use_allocator_shim%': 0,
           }],
-          ['"<(GENERATOR)"=="ninja"', {
+          ['component=="shared_library" and "<(GENERATOR)"=="ninja"', {
             # Only enabled by default for ninja because it's buggy in VS.
+            # Not enabled for component=static_library because some targets
+            # are too large and the toolchain fails due to the size of the
+            # .obj files.
             'incremental_chrome_dll%': 1,
           }],
           # Whether to use multiple cores to compile with visual studio. This is
           # optional because it sometimes causes corruption on VS 2005.
           # It is on by default on VS 2008 and off on VS 2005.
           ['MSVS_VERSION=="2005"', {
             'msvs_multi_core_compile%': 0,
           },{
             'msvs_multi_core_compile%': 1,
           }],
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     # settings in target dicts.  SYMROOT is a special case, because many other
     # Xcode variables depend on it, including variables such as
     # PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR.  When a source group corresponding to something
     # like PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR is added to a project, in order for the
     # files to appear (when present) in the UI as actual files and not red
     # red "missing file" proxies, the correct path to PROJECT_DERIVED_FILE_DIR,
     # and therefore SYMROOT, needs to be set at the project level.
     'SYMROOT': '<(DEPTH)/xcodebuild',
   },
 }