Re: [openvrml-develop] stripping libopenvrml.a

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 19:38 +0100, Stefan Rilling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as it was already mentioned serevral times here I am using strip to
> reduce the size of the static library. When I call
> 
> strip libopenvrml.a
> 
> i get I library with the reduced size of about 20MB. This is still very
> huge,

20 MB is in the ballpark of expected sizes.

>  but besides of this I get a lot uf undefined references trying
> to link to that stripped library. So could someone explain to me in
> detail how to strip the library correctly? I only need some basic
> file output of vertex and index lists, normals, vertex colors and
> texture coordinates, but I was not able to figure out how to do that.
> Sorry if this is a noob question.

Stripping a static library is a little unusual; and you might have to
play with some of the options to strip to see what works. Read "man
strip". You definitely don't want to strip *everything*; I'd start with
--strip-unneeded.

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