Exporting all symbols

[Dirk Feytons]

On 16 March 2016 at 10:26, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at nginx.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:33:09PM +0100, Dirk Feytons wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With the introduction of the dynamic modules feature nginx is now always
> > exporting its symbols. This is a bit unfortunate for our use case: we
> > incorporate nginx in an embedded device and keep the binary size down by
> > only enabling a couple (static) modules and removing unused symbols with
> > -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections. This makes
> quite
> > a difference but it now no longer works due to the hardcoded -Wl,-E
> >
> > I can easily patch the build system but I'm hoping for an official
> > solution. Perhaps some build flag to disable support for dynamic modules?
>
> Does this work for you?
>
> $ auto/configure --with-cc-opt=-fvisibility=hidden
>
>
Yes indeed, this works.
Thanks for the tip!


Dirk F.
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