It's certainly calling strip on your binary (to remove unneeded symbols).


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Jean-Michaël Celerier
http://www.jcelerier.name

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Eric Braley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Basically, I'm compiling a library to use in an Android app. When I'm
> including the .so file in an app via ANDROID_EXTRA_LIBS everything works
> fine.
>
> However, I have a requirement outside of my control to checksum the
> library within the app when it starts. This should be easy because I
> compile them separately. Checksum the shared library, hardcode the checksum
> into the app and deploy. (This is a drastic oversimplification of the real
> use-case, but suffices as an example)
>
> An undocumented qmake method has managed to ruin this however. During the
> installation of the library into the Android build, a command is run using
> "qmake -install qinstall -exe". Whatever this command does, it removes
> several hundred kb from my shared library even though it was already
> compiled for Android as a subproject in the same project as the app. It
> operates like normal, but I'd like to know what this command is doing to
> the shared library that shrinks it. I need this information so that I can
> reproduce this process when compiling so that what I compile and what is
> deployed to the device are the same literal file.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on here?
>
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