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authorYury Zhuravlev <stalkerg@gmail.com>2016-07-10 17:24:43 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2016-07-11 13:41:04 (GMT)
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Windows: Honor WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS for executables with exports
For executables with ENABLE_EXPORTS set, export all symbols when instructed to do so by WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.
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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst
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--- a/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ This property is implemented only for MS-compatible tools on Windows.
Enable this boolean property to automatically create a module definition
(``.def``) file with all global symbols found in the input ``.obj`` files
-for a ``SHARED`` library on Windows. The module definition file will be
-passed to the linker causing all symbols to be exported from the ``.dll``.
+for a ``SHARED`` library (or executable with :prop_tgt:`ENABLE_EXPORTS`)
+on Windows. The module definition file will be passed to the linker
+causing all symbols to be exported from the ``.dll``.
For global *data* symbols, ``__declspec(dllimport)`` must still be used when
compiling against the code in the ``.dll``. All other function symbols will
be automatically exported and imported by callers. This simplifies porting