On May 18, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 18-mei-2006, at 5:29, William Kyngesburye wrote: > >> Is there some way to customize or override the build flags for >> building a Python extension (a C library wrapper)? >> >> My main problem is that it adds the -g debug flag, ballooning the >> size of the module. I want to build WITHOUT the -g flag. > > It is possible to add additonal flags, but that won't help you > because you want to remove an existing flag and that is not > possible. GCC also doesn't have a flag that negates the -g flag. > > If you want to remove the debugging information you can use the > strip command to remove this from the compiled extension. > I've had mostly bad luck with stripping libraries - it would sometimes create an unstable or broken library. I'd prefer not using -g in the first place.
Is there maybe a python config file with the flags that distutils uses? I looked around a bit in the framework but didn't see anything. Or is that built into the python binary/library? > But, why do care about the size of the compiled extension? Disk > space is cheap these days ;-). Disk space is cheap, but not always download bandwidth. I build and package this for others. And I'm a frugal person and like things compact, with little bloat. One library I've built was a difference of 20MB with debug or 2MB optimized (and that's one of those where I had problems stripping it). An application (in constant development) was something like 150MB or 35MB. Add to that the doubling affect of universal builds now... > Furthermore, if you redistribute the extension as part of an > applicationt that is build using py2app the extension will be > stripped when it is stuffed inside the application bundle. > It's not really meant for application use, but as a part of using Python for web serving. Another reason for being small - less to load, and reload..., into memory for the webserver. Tho that's an interesting possibility - I've seen a question about that on the software's mailing list before. ----- William Kyngesburye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ "Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
