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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..283f5a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +ENABLE_EXPORTS +-------------- + +Specify whether an executable exports symbols for loadable modules. + +Normally an executable does not export any symbols because it is the +final program. It is possible for an executable to export symbols to +be used by loadable modules. When this property is set to true CMake +will allow other targets to "link" to the executable with the +TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES command. On all platforms a target-level +dependency on the executable is created for targets that link to it. +For DLL platforms an import library will be created for the exported +symbols and then used for linking. All Windows-based systems +including Cygwin are DLL platforms. For non-DLL platforms that +require all symbols to be resolved at link time, such as Mac OS X, the +module will "link" to the executable using a flag like +"-bundle_loader". For other non-DLL platforms the link rule is simply +ignored since the dynamic loader will automatically bind symbols when +the module is loaded. |