On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:14:44 +0400, Heywood Floyd <[email protected]>
wrote:
..got it solved at last.. \o/
Just writing it down here for future reference (since I found nothing
when googling etc..)
Strip can not manage this by itself. The linker, ld (el-dee) needs to be
run with the "-exported_symbols_list"-option and given an empty file.
Then the symbols created by dmd are treated as local, or whatever it is,
and then strip can successfully strip them out. If CLI is used then a
stripped binary can be created like this: (#-lines are treated as
comments in the exported symbols file.)
# echo "#empty symbols list for d-code stripping" > symlist
# dmd -L-exported_symbols_list -Lsymlist myprog
# strip myprog
If XCode is used (with the D for Xcode plugin) an empty file can be put
in the project root and then the "Exported Symbols File"-build property
(for Release) can be set to the name of this file. Then, lastly a new
Build Phase: Run Script can be added with the code
strip build/Release/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp
If the target is an OSX-app named MyApp.
Hope it helps someone at some point... :)
Toodiloo!
BR
/HF
Good to know and glad you solved that one. Many people are looking for a
way to strip symbols from the executable and reduce file size in general,
they should find your information useful.
