From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: stripping libraries
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:14:44 +0100
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Hello.

Clemens Valens wrote:
[snip]
> When I inspect the library file I find all internal function
> names etc. that I do not want to be visible. How can I strip all
> this?
> 
> I have tried "strip --strip-debug -x" but everything is still
> there. When I strip using "-K my_symbol" I can get rid of all
> the unwanted stuff, but a program that uses this library doesn't
> work anymore.
[snip]

Why don't you make some of the internal functions static? That way they
won't be usable outside their parent C source file, e.g. instead of:

int some_function_i_dont_want_to_be_visible (void)
{
  ...
}

you'd have:

static int some_function_i_dont_want_to_be_visible (void)
{
  ...
}

As I said, this won't work if you want to use this function outside the .c
file. The same use of 'static' can be done with variables internal to the
library.

BTW if you have a program that uses your library's internal functions,
then the functions aren't really internal to your library anymore.

Hope this helps, bye,

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Richard Dawe
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