cmake, .a files missing?

[soldi]

I have installed (2.77) on linux system wide using the following

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cmake -DINSTALL_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebugInfo -G "Unix Makefiles"
make
make install

I am trying to follow the hello world tutorial on the wiki site but I am having linking issues
The headers are in /usr/local/include/bullet
an I have the following

libBulletCollision.so
libBulletCollision.so.2.77
libBulletDynamics.so
libBulletDynamics.so.2.77
libBulletMultiThreaded.so
libBulletMultiThreaded.so.2.77
libBulletSoftBody.so
libBulletSoftBody.so.2.77
libBulletSoftBodySolvers_CPU.so
libBulletSoftBodySolvers_CPU.so.2.77

in /usr/local/lib/

but not .a in which the hello world tell you to link with.
They do not seem to be made, I have checked in
src/BulletCollision/Release/
src/LinearMath/Release/
src/BulletDynamics/Release/
src/BulletSoftBody/Release/
But I don't even have a release folder
Initially I just want to print the info to the terminal, then move onto putting out a .so for a plug-in in another app.

What am I doing wrong here?

edit:

My LD_LIBRARY_PATH was wrong
using
g++ -o test main.cpp -I/usr/local/include/bullet -L/usr/local/lib/ -lBulletDynamics -lBulletCollision -lLinearMath
lests me compile the hello World



*feel like a fool*


but should the .a file have been created?