This directory contains .def files for some of the DLLs in Evolution. They are used to build bootstrap import libraries for these DLLs in advance before they have actually been built. This is necessary because Evolution's shared libraries have circular dependencies, and one can't have unresolved symbols when building shared libraries on Win32. These .def files aren't used when building the actual DLLs in question. They are only used to produce bootstrap import libraries for them. Thus a .def file for libFOO here doesn't list all the actual entry points in libFOO, only those that are used by other DLLs that are built before libFOO. When the actual libFOO is built, we rely on the GNU linker's auto-export to export all public symbols.