Default Makefile does not hide symbols

[hendu]

The shipped Makefile does not pass -fvisibility=hidden to the build. This means that all symbols are exported, and that the shared lib is some 600kb bigger than it needs to be.

This flag is safe to pass for the static build too, so I recommend adding it unconditionally to CXXFLAGS.

[hendu]

Oh, I see we discussed this before:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum/v ... ty#p258438

That old thread is wrong though, you *can* test whether gcc supports an option dynamically. See the kernel's Makefiles (scripts/Kbuild.include, cc-option in particular).

[hybrid]

So if you know a configuration that works with Linux gcc, mingw and OSX command line, just provide the patch. Otherwise we have to stay conservative and let this open for local changes.

[hendu]

I don't have access to a Mac, so that rules out any patch directly?

Personally, I'd just drop support for GCC 3 and default that option on. What platforms need such an old compiler?