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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/module-def-and-WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst index 06c3e6d..86711bf 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst @@ -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. diff --git a/Help/release/dev/module-def-and-WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst b/Help/release/dev/module-def-and-WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfa9ef1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/module-def-and-WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS.rst @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +module-def-and-WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS +----------------------------------------- + +* The :prop_tgt:`WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS` target property may now + be used in combination with explicit ``.def`` files in order to + export all symbols from the object files within a target plus + an explicit list of symbols that the linker finds in dependencies + (e.g. ``msvcrt.lib``). |