DEFINE_SYMBOL — CMake 4.2.6 Documentation

# DEFINE_SYMBOL

Define a symbol when compiling this target's sources.

`DEFINE_SYMBOL` sets the name of the preprocessor symbol defined when compiling sources in a shared library. If not set here then it is set to `target_EXPORTS` by default (with some substitutions if the target is not a valid C identifier). This is useful for headers to know whether they are being included from inside their library or outside to properly setup dllexport/dllimport decorations on Windows.

On POSIX platforms, this can optionally be used to control the visibility of symbols.

CMake provides support for such decorations with the `GenerateExportHeader` module.