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| author | Yury Zhuravlev <stalkerg@gmail.com> | 2016-07-10 17:24:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-07-11 13:41:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 9da725cb00d25c7d3f45e8ee8c943ec5241d6227 (patch) | |
| tree | d8ac9317dc0b460557c119180fdd04d4bff0da55 /Help/prop_tgt | |
| parent | 2005b960672d2d552585805ea398b02400a576b7 (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_tgt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst index 3f48af8..06c3e6d 100644 --- 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 |