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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ be automatically exported and imported by callers. This simplifies porting
projects to Windows by reducing the need for explicit ``dllexport`` markup,
even in ``C++`` classes.
+When this property is enabled, zero or more ``.def`` files may also be
+specified as source files of the target. The exports named by these files
+will be merged with those detected from the object files to generate a
+single module definition file to be passed to the linker. This can be
+used to export symbols from a ``.dll`` that are not in any of its object
+files but are added by the linker from dependencies (e.g. ``msvcrt.lib``).
+
This property is initialized by the value of
the :variable:`CMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS` variable if it is set
when a target is created.