Is it possible to suppress standard lib and dlang symbols in dylib (macos)

[Imperatorn]

On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 17:00:06 UTC, David wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 14:49:32 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 10:29:55 UTC, David wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 08:40:58 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 08:34:48 UTC, David wrote:
>>>>> I thought it would be fun to convert some old C++/C quant 
>>>>> utils to D. I'm starting with a simple library that I call 
>>>>> from vba in Excel on macos:
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> *trigger warning*
>>>>
>>>> "vba in Excel on macos" ⚠️
>>>>
>>>> Btw, have you looked at excel-d?
>>>>
>>>> https://code.dlang.org/packages/excel-d
>>>
>>>>> Btw, have you looked at excel-d?
>>> Of course - but unless I've missed something I don't believe 
>>> it works on macos.
>>
>> Hmm, I'm not sure. Have you tried?
>
> Nope the documentation implies it only works on windows so I've 
> ruled it out. But the thing I'm trying to solve is suppression 
> of symbols in the library.

I see, there might be something similar to .def?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/module-definition-dot-def-files?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=msvc-160

Or I guess you could strip it?
https://www.linux.org/docs/man1/strip.html

But I guess you already thought of that and want to not even 
generate them in the first place?