[C++-sig] Reduce the resulting .so file size

[Niall Douglas]

On 29 Dec 2004 at 14:36, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:33 -0300, João Paulo Fernandes Farias wrote:
> > Hi! > > Is there a way to reduce the final .so file size? > > I've
> ported pyogre to linux and the final .so file is about 63Mb.
> 
> If you want to try something experimental, use this patch to reduce
> the default symbol visibility in your module:
> http://www.nedprod.com/programs/gccvisibility.html

No one mentioned that GCC v4 from CVS already contains the GCC 
visibility patch, so I will here. They've also changed the 
intermediate code description language so it may produce bigger or 
smaller final binaries after optimisation (one would think smaller).

Cheers,
Niall