diff --git a/src/SConscript.client b/src/SConscript.client
index 79e8857013..bc652098bc 100644
--- a/src/SConscript.client
+++ b/src/SConscript.client
@@ -378,14 +378,14 @@ if installSetup.headers or installSetup.libraries:
         include_bsonh_test,
     ])
 
-# Compile the example files to .o so that we can link them twice: once statically, once shared.
-exampleObjMap = [(target, clientEnv.Object(source)) for (target, source) in exampleSourceMap]
-
 staticClientEnv = clientEnv.Clone()
 staticClientEnv.PrependUnique(LIBDEPS=[mongoClientStaticLib])
+staticClientEnv.AppendUnique(CPPDEFINES=['STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT'])
 
 # Build each statically linked client program
-staticClientPrograms = [staticClientEnv.Program(target, obj) for (target, obj) in exampleObjMap]
+staticClientPrograms = [
+    staticClientEnv.Program(target, source) for (target, source) in exampleSourceMap
+]
 
 # Install them to the root, and append the install targets to the list of client tests
 clientTests = staticClientEnv.Install("#/", staticClientPrograms)
@@ -402,6 +402,10 @@ if buildShared:
         LIBDEPS=mongoClientLibDeps,
     )
 
+    # Pretend that these files are shared object suffixed so they don't conflict with the objects
+    # for the static library.
+    sharedClientEnv['OBJSUFFIX'] = sharedClientEnv['OBJSUFFIX'] + 's'
+
     # Deal with the different lookup models between regular UNIX and Darwin. For regular unix,
     # we set $ORIGIN to pull the copy we run against from the current directory
     # (#/sharedclient). On Darwin, the staged copy of the mongoclient dylib in #sharedclient
@@ -412,13 +416,14 @@ if buildShared:
             RPATH=[sharedClientEnv.Literal("\\$$ORIGIN")])
 
     sharedClientPrograms = [
-        sharedClientEnv.Program("sharedclient/" + target, obj) for (target, obj) in exampleObjMap]
+        sharedClientEnv.Program(
+            "sharedclient/" + target, source) for (target, source) in exampleSourceMap]
     libEnv.Depends(sharedClientPrograms, mongoClientInstalls)
 
     sharedClientProgramInstalls = sharedClientEnv.Install("#/sharedclient", sharedClientPrograms)
     clientTests.extend(sharedClientProgramInstalls)
 
-clientEnv.Alias('clientTests', clientTests, [])
+clientEnv.Alias('clientTests', clientTests)
 
 # NOTE: There must be a mongod listening on 127.0.0.1:27999 (the traditional mongodb smoke test
 # port) for the smokeClient target to run. In the server repo that is no problem, the smoke.py
diff --git a/src/mongo/bson/bson.h b/src/mongo/bson/bson.h
index 3ccbaec5a2..3fac500202 100644
--- a/src/mongo/bson/bson.h
+++ b/src/mongo/bson/bson.h
@@ -38,7 +38,13 @@
 #error bson.h is for C++ driver consumer use only
 #endif
 
+// Consumers of the MongoDB C++ client library must define STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT when including
+// this header if they intend to link against the static version of the library. This is best
+// handled by adding STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT to the list of definitions passed on each compile
+// invocation.
+#ifndef STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT
 #define LIBMONGOCLIENT_CONSUMER
+#endif
 
 #include "mongo/client/redef_macros.h"
 
diff --git a/src/mongo/client/dbclient.h b/src/mongo/client/dbclient.h
index 9930688b81..1be7bbf3d5 100644
--- a/src/mongo/client/dbclient.h
+++ b/src/mongo/client/dbclient.h
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@
 #error dbclient.h is for C++ driver consumer use only
 #endif
 
+// Consumers of the MongoDB C++ client library must define STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT when including
+// this header if they intend to link against the static version of the library. This is best
+// handled by adding STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT to the list of definitions passed on each compile
+// invocation.
+#ifndef STATIC_LIBMONGOCLIENT
 #define LIBMONGOCLIENT_CONSUMER
+#endif
 
 #include "mongo/client/redef_macros.h"