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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 3f48af88c8..06c3e6d5f9 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 |