[R-pkg-devel] Portable method of stripping debug symbols

[Christopher Lalansingh]

Hello all,


I'm running into troubles with the total size of my package and I've found that when using Rcpp, one can reduce the size of shared objects by stripping out debug symbols by including `-Wl,-S' in PKG_LIBS. Unfortunately this is not portable with Solaris, and using ifeq in my Makevars file to check for SunOS isn't portable either.


I came across an Issue on github (https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/522) which addresses possible ways to do this portably, but I can't find reference to // [[Rcpp::plugins(strip)]] in any other documentation. If anyone has run into this before and has any suggestions it would be much appreciated.


Thanks,


Christopher Lalansingh
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