Re: [openvrml-develop] stripping libopenvrml.a

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

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 00:00 +0100, Stefan Rilling wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> BM> Stripping a static library is a little unusual; and you might have to
> BM> play with some of the options to strip to see what works. Read "man
> BM> strip". You definitely don't want to strip *everything*; I'd start with
> BM> --strip-unneeded.
> I forgot to mention that I already tried all the options strip offers.
> both --strip-unneeded and --discard-all give me the error:
> BFD: BFD 2.15.91 20040904 internal error, aborting at ../../src/bfd/coffcode.h l
> ine 852 in handle_COMDAT
> 
> BFD: Please report this bug.

Bummer. Oh, well. It's Cygwin.

> --discard-locals and --strip-debug do not reduce the size nameable.
> The problem with the size of libopenvrml.a I have is that the linking
> process for my app takes about 10 minutes, and as I'm quite new to
> openVRML, I have to recompile very often to try different things. So
> do I have any other chances to speed up linking instead of striping
> the library?

You could not use Cygwin/gcc. gcc doesn't handle lots of large symbols
particularly well on any platform--though this is improving. (The Red
Hat variant of gcc 4.1.1 that ships with Fedora Core 6 includes
improvements that make compiling/linking OpenVRML *fly* relative to
previous releases.) In general, if something is slow, doing it on Cygwin
will make it even slower.

Can you use the Microsoft compiler?

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