Unfortunately I can't promise a date or version where this will supported.

I have added you as requesting this to the internal issue, which will increase its priority when planning what to focus on for future versions.

Unfortunately ExternalMedia uses a construct that requires evaluating external functions during the building of models, since results of such functions are used for constants/structural elements in the model.

System Modeler doesn't currently support such uses of external functions, so ExternalMedia will not work in current versions of System Modeler.

Blockquote Is there a place or way to tell sysytemmodeler to use a shared library.

System Modeler more or less only passes the base library name and library path to the linker and at least ld will use the shared one if it exists. I don't know how it works on Windows, but to be sure I guess you can delete the static one.

You can read about the annotations used for specifying the library name and path here: https://specification.modelica.org/maint/3.5/functions.html#annotations-for-external-libraries-and-include-files

Otto