shared library size

[boolangery]

On Monday, 2 July 2018 at 12:21:04 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>
> On POSIX by default, all the symbols in a shared library are 
> exported. That makes a lot of symbols that can't be stripped 
> automatically by the linker!
>
> And it won't change anytime soon 
> (https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/2431).
>
> The one option you have with LDC to have smaller shared 
> libraries is to use:
>
> $ ldc2 -exported_symbols_list list-of-symbols.lst -dead_strip 
> <rest-of-cmdline>
>
> Good luck!

hmmm doesn't seem to work for me

ldc2: Unknown command line argument '-exported_symbols_list'.  
Try: 'ldc2 -help'
ldc2: Did you mean '-import-instr-limit'?
ldc2: Unknown command line argument '-dead_strip'.  Try: 'ldc2 
-help'
ldc2: Did you mean '-defaultlib'?