Re: stage rule on windows problem

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-24 18:27:36

C. Andy Martin wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
> 
>>Similar results on my code... Which I forgot to mention. Don't have 
>>exact figures with me at this time... But the size difference between 
>>debug (which has all the symbols for me) and release (which removes all 
>>symbols except the dllexport ones) is more than 80%.
> 
> If we could strip out unneeded symbols (symbols which don't need to be 
> referenced by other modules) it seems you could really shrink the size 
> of the dynamic table.

That's what I'm saying I do... I have custom build steps for release 
that allow me to mark the dllexport symbols for the SOs that I build. 
Everything else, except external dependences, is striped.

...More specifically I mark almost everything as private in the ELF 
objects and relink to get all those private symbols removed. I don't do 
that in the debug so I can do symbolic debugging :-) And the regular 
link tools, as you mention only strip the static symbols.

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