diff --git a/src/SConscript b/src/SConscript
index 794934cd50..ea7534f3f0 100644
--- a/src/SConscript
+++ b/src/SConscript
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from buildutils import *
 from pathlib import Path
+import re
 
 Import('env', 'build', 'install', 'libraryTargets')
 
@@ -128,10 +129,23 @@ localenv.Append(LIBS=localenv['external_libs'],
 def create_def_file(target, source, env):
     # Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/58958294
     startPoint = False
-    # Exclude standard API like sprintf to avoid multiple definition link error
-    excluded_functions = {'sprintf', 'snprintf', 'sscanf', 'fprintf'}
+    # Avoid exporting some unnecessary symbols
+    exclusions = [
+        lambda name: name.startswith(('??_G', '??_E')), # deleting destructors; generate warning LNK4102
+        lambda name: name.startswith(('??_C', '__real@', '__xmm')), # various constants
+        lambda name: name.startswith(('??$forward', '??$addressof', '??$construct', '??$destroy')),
+        lambda name: name.startswith(('SUN', 'N_V', 'CV', 'cv', 'IDA', 'ida')), # Sundials
+        lambda name: '<lambda_' in name, # lambdas
+        lambda name: '@boost@' in name,
+        lambda name: ('@Eigen@' in name or '@YAML@' in name) and 'Cantera' not in name,
+        lambda name: '$vector@' in name and 'Cantera' not in name,
+        lambda name: 'char_traits' in name and 'Cantera' not in name and 'fmt' not in name,
+        lambda name: '_Tree' in name or '$_Hash' in name, # standard library internals
+        lambda name: re.match(r'[\?$]+_[A-Z][a-z_]+@', name), # standard library methods
+    ]
 
     func_count = 0
+    include_count = 0
     with open(target[0].abspath, 'w') as outfile, open(source[0].abspath, 'r') as infile:
         outfile.write('EXPORTS\n')
 
@@ -142,13 +156,14 @@ def create_def_file(target, source, env):
             if not startPoint and "public symbols" in l_str:
                 startPoint = True
                 continue
+            func_count += 1
             if startPoint and l_str:
                 funcName = l_str.split(' ')[-1]
-                if funcName not in excluded_functions:
-                    func_count += 1
+                if not any(test(funcName) for test in exclusions):
+                    include_count += 1
                     outfile.write("    " + funcName + "\n")
 
-    logger.info(f"Exported {func_count} functions in .def file")
+    logger.info(f"Exported {include_count} out of {func_count} functions in .def file")
 
 # Build the Cantera shared library
 if localenv['layout'] != 'debian':
@@ -165,8 +180,7 @@ if localenv['layout'] != 'debian':
         dump = localenv.Command('cantera.dump', lib,
                                 'dumpbin /LINKERMEMBER:1 $SOURCE /OUT:$TARGET')
         def_file = localenv.Command('cantera_shared.def', dump, create_def_file)
-        localenv.Append(LINKFLAGS=['/DEF:build/src/cantera_shared.def',
-                                   '/IGNORE:4102'])
+        localenv.Append(LINKFLAGS=['/DEF:build/src/cantera_shared.def'])
 
     if localenv['versioned_shared_library']:
         lib = build(localenv.SharedLibrary(sharedName, libraryTargets + sharedIndicator,