[gdal-dev] Question about GDAL lib size

[Patrick Valsecchi]

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ...

But typically the libs are not stripped in this mode either. I never
understood why and always add steps to do it afterwards.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:52 AM Fan Liu <fan.liu at ericsson.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I tried ‘strip lib’, it reduce the lib file size to 17MB.
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> Do you know is there any parameters during “./configure” to compile
> without debug? I didn’t find the document.
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> BRs,
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> Fan Liu
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> *From:* Fan Liu
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 2, 2019 2:40 PM
> *To:* Patrick Valsecchi <patrick.valsecchi at camptocamp.com>
> *Subject:* RE: [gdal-dev] Question about GDAL lib size
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> Hi Patrick,
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> Thanks for the reply.
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> I checked online, it looks like strip a library will only remove unused
> links for debug.
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> Is it possible to get confirm that strip a library will not impact
> functions?
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> BRs,
>
> Fan Liu
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> *From:* Patrick Valsecchi <patrick.valsecchi at camptocamp.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 2, 2019 2:27 PM
> *To:* Fan Liu <fan.liu at ericsson.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [gdal-dev] Question about GDAL lib size
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> Hi,
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> Most likely Redhat's is stripped and yours not. And yours is maybe also
> compiled in debug...
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> Plus, you don't look at the same version of GDAL.
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> To strip a library, use the "strip" command.
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> CU
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> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 8:12 AM Fan Liu <fan.liu at ericsson.com> wrote:
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> Resent question after register. Could anyone support?
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> BRs,
>
> Fan Liu
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> *From:* Fan Liu
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:24 AM
> *To:* 'gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org' <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject:* Question about GDAL lib size
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> Hello,
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> I have a question related with lib size. When I install GDAL via rpm on
> redhat, it lib size is 13MB. But when I compile GDAL frou source code on
> SUSE, the lib is 121MB. This confuse me, could anyone provide any
> suggestions? Why it's so big?
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121M Apr  1 08:37 libgdal.so.20.5.0  ## compile via
> source code 2.4.0
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> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  13M Jan 28  2018 libgdal.so.1.18.4  ## installed
> via rpm on redhat
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> BRs,
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> Fan Liu
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