Re: Bloated binaries (still)
Re: Bloated binaries (still)
- Subject: Re: Bloated binaries (still)
- From: OL&L Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:30:20 -0700
strip -S <filename>
Strips all debugging information but not function names from binary
program file filename. Can drastically reduce the size of
Applications on disk. Run this command on the actual executable
inside Contents/MacOS directory of the application package.
Michael
Orbital Launch & Lift, Inc.
http://www.orbitallaunch.com
At 1:17 PM -0600 8/27/04, David Catmull wrote:
>I posted about this problem a few weeks ago, but never quite found a
>solution. I'm about to post a new release of the product, so I'm
>trying again.
>
>I have an application with a couple of plugins, all built with the
>same project. While the host app is about 20k, the plugins'
>executable files are bloated to several megabytes, apparently due to
>the presence of debugging information. They ought to be no bigger
>than the host app. I scoured the target settings of the app and the
>plugins but found nothing that seemed to account for the difference.
>Even switching to the Deployment build style doesn't solve the
>problem. Can anyone offer a suggestion on this? This is with XCode
>1.5.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>David Catmull
>email@hidden
>http://www.uncommonplace.com/
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