Removing unwanted symbols from a .so

[Miah Gregory <miah at picsel dot com>]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been covered before, I did a brief search of the
archives (and have googled) but didn't find anything that covers the
problem I'm having.

I've built a .so, but when I run nm -D on the .so, I get a list of
not only the external dependencies and explicitly exported symbols,
but also a large number of symbols that are meant to be internal to my
library.

Is there either (a) a way to prevent these symbols from being added to
the .so in the first place (maybe through partial linking?) or (b) a way
to strip these extra symbols whilst keeping the library functional and
keeping the API symbols available?

Thanks in advance.

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replying.

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Miah Gregory