diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index a51048b..fbd8f60 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@
 CLEANFILES += $(pkgconfig_DATA)
 
 
-DEF_FILES = harfbuzz.def harfbuzz-subset.def harfbuzz-icu.def harfbuzz-deprecated.def
+DEF_FILES = harfbuzz.def harfbuzz-subset.def harfbuzz-icu.def harfbuzz-deprecated-symbols.txt
 if HAVE_GOBJECT
 DEF_FILES += harfbuzz-gobject.def
 endif
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@
 	$(AM_V_GEN) $(srcdir)/gen-def.py "$@" $^
 harfbuzz-gobject.def: $(HB_GOBJECT_headers)
 	$(AM_V_GEN) $(srcdir)/gen-def.py "$@" $^
-harfbuzz-deprecated.def: $(srcdir)/hb-deprecated.h
-	$(AM_V_GEN) $(srcdir)/gen-def.py "$@" $^
+harfbuzz-deprecated-symbols.txt: $(srcdir)/hb-deprecated.h
+	$(AM_V_GEN) PLAIN_LIST=1 $(srcdir)/gen-def.py "$@" $^
 
 
 GENERATORS = \
diff --git a/src/gen-def.py b/src/gen-def.py
index ba39eaa..9111c69 100755
--- a/src/gen-def.py
+++ b/src/gen-def.py
@@ -15,11 +15,10 @@
 	if h.endswith (".h"):
 		with io.open (h, encoding='utf-8') as f: headers_content.append (f.read ())
 
-result = """EXPORTS
+symbols = "\n".join (sorted (re.findall (r"^hb_\w+(?= \()", "\n".join (headers_content), re.M)))
+
+result = symbols if os.environ.get('PLAIN_LIST', '') else """EXPORTS
 %s
-LIBRARY lib%s-0.dll""" % (
-	"\n".join (sorted (re.findall (r"^hb_\w+(?= \()", "\n".join (headers_content), re.M))),
-	output_file.replace ('.def', '')
-)
+LIBRARY lib%s-0.dll""" % (symbols, output_file.replace ('.def', ''))
 
 with open (output_file, "w") as f: f.write (result)
diff --git a/test/api/Makefile.am b/test/api/Makefile.am
index 45a34e6..c233a90 100644
--- a/test/api/Makefile.am
+++ b/test/api/Makefile.am
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
 	$(AM_V_GEN)$(top_builddir)/libtool --mode=execute nm $^ \
 	| grep ' U hb_' | sed 's/.* U hb_/hb_/' \
 	| sort | uniq > $@.tmp && mv $@.tmp $@
-symbols-tested-or-deprecated.txt: symbols-tested.txt $(top_builddir)/src/harfbuzz-deprecated.def
+symbols-tested-or-deprecated.txt: symbols-tested.txt $(top_builddir)/src/harfbuzz-deprecated-symbols.txt
 	$(AM_V_GEN)cat $^ | sort | uniq > $@.tmp; mv $@.tmp $@
 symbols-exported.txt: $(top_builddir)/src/.libs/libharfbuzz.so
 	$(AM_V_GEN)$(top_builddir)/libtool --mode=execute nm $^ \