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- WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS
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- 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 (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
- 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.
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