Re: How to supress debug symbols?

[Michael Goffioul]

MinGW/gcc does not support shared libstdc++, it uses the static
one (at the moment). That's why each oct-file is so large.

Michael.


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Alexander Mamonov <address@hidden> wrote:
> My bad, I didn't pass anything in CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS, so it seems
> that they were defaulted to -g -O2. Sorry for the trouble.
> I could still use some advice on .oct files though.
>
> Regards,
> Alex
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Alexander Mamonov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm absolutely sure that the CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS variables that I set
>> before doing ./configure do not contain any -g parameters. Another
>> problem that I have noticed is that while the size of dll's was
>> sufficiently reduced by doing the -Wl,--strip-debug hack, the size of
>> .oct files is still quite large (on the order of couple MB each). Can
>> it be that they are also built with debug symbols? Or can it be that
>> they are linked statically and thus have such a large size?
>> Input from MinGW gurus here (Tatsuro, Benjamin) is appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 10-May-2009, Alexander Mamonov wrote:
>>>
>>> | I'm trying to compile Octave from the recent sources (MinGW TDM gcc
>>> | 4.3.0), and I want to keep the size of the resulting ddl's small. I
>>> | tried adding -Wl,--strip-debug to LDFLAGS, but it seems that it does
>>> | not affect anything. After ./configure I can see my LDFLAGS being
>>> | added to Makeconf, but when the dll is built, I do not see my LDFLAGS
>>> | in the console output. If I hack Makeconf and add -Wl,--strip-debug to
>>> | SH_LDFLAGS it works, but this is of course very ugly way of doing
>>> | things. What is the proper way to build Octave without debug symbols?
>>>
>>> If you don't want debugging symbols, then don't use -g in CXXFLAGS,
>>> CFLAGS, and FFLAGS.
>>>
>>> jwe
>>>
>>
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