From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
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Subject: Re: stripping libraries
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:36:13 -0400
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Clemens Valens wrote:

> I have to create a library to distribute. This library needs to
> export only a few functions although internally it uses many.
> 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?

Declare any functions that you don't want externally visible as static.

> P.S. I've built my library from many objects that were compiled
> with the -s switch, so there should be no debug info in them.
> When I strip debug info from my library the filesize is almost
> reduced to a third of the original. So where does all this debug
> info come from?

The compiler.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)