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diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst index 7ec4d635d..8848da123 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS.rst @@ -1,22 +1,8 @@ CMAKE_ENABLE_EXPORTS -------------------- -Specify whether an executable exports symbols for loadable modules. +Specify whether executables export 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 -:command:`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 macOS, 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. - -This variable is used to initialize the target property -:prop_tgt:`ENABLE_EXPORTS` for executable targets. +This variable is used to initialize the :prop_tgt:`ENABLE_EXPORTS` target +property for executable targets when they are created by calls to the +:command:`add_executable` command. See the property documentation for details. |