Jonas Maebe schrieb: > > On 19 dec 2006, at 15:50, Vlad wrote: > >> I made dylib with FPC (compiled in delphi mode if it is important). I >> have functions that I want to export listed in "exports" section, a >> few hundreds exported and that works fine but when I run otool it >> shows me thousands - class methods, functions, almost everything, and >> it seems like this symbols take a lot of space in the dylib, almost >> half of it. And I cannot strip them. Can anybody explain what it the >> reason why they are exported? > > If you compile a dynamic library with FPC, it automatically statically > links in a copy of all units you use in that library (also RTL units). > You cannot strip these, since they are used by the library code (and > smart linking, or dead code stripping as Apple calls it, is not yet > supported on Mac OS X due to bugs in Apple's linker). > > The reason they are also exported, is that they are global symbols > (i.e., they appear in the interface of a unit). I know the manual states > that no symbols will be exported unless you mention them in the export > statement, but afaik this is wrong in general (except maybe on Windows?)
IIRC it's true for Linux too. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
