Make the .a file smaller?

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Obsidian
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Make the .a file smaller?

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Alright, i'm writing stuff for Linux, but the compiled output of the Irrlicht Source is 30MB+... so i was going to go ahead and remove all of the other ways (other than OpenGL from rendering types, but i wasn't sure how difficult it was to do)... are there any other ways of adjusting the source to make it compile in a smaller size?

How do you remove the other Rendering types, can i just comment out the include stuff for DX and stuff? Or do i need to go through and remove everything that ties into DX?
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Post by hybrid »

You just have to remove the debug information, compile with optimizations, and strip the resulting executable. Use 'make NDEBUG=1' to create an optimized libIrrlicht.a (and 'make clean' before).
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