Distutils - How to disable including debug symbols when building an extension
distutils, python
Solution
I've found a way but is a bit hacky:
from distutils import sysconfig
from distutils.core import setup
import platform
if platform.system() != 'Windows': # When compilinig con visual no -g is added to params
cflags = sysconfig.get_config_var('CFLAGS')
opt = sysconfig.get_config_var('OPT')
sysconfig._config_vars['CFLAGS'] = cflags.replace(' -g ', ' ')
sysconfig._config_vars['OPT'] = opt.replace(' -g ', ' ')
if platform.system() == 'Linux': # In macos there seems not to be -g in LDSHARED
ldshared = sysconfig.get_config_var('LDSHARED')
sysconfig._config_vars['LDSHARED'] = ldshared.replace(' -g ', ' ')
setup(...)
Problem
I've written a boost-python extension that currently is being built via distutils. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a way, within distutils, to build the extension without debug symbols or have the symbols stripped from the extension upon installation. Note: I am not passing --debug or -g to build command of distutils (e.g., python setup.py build), and my compiler is gcc on Linux. Exampled setup.py: ``` from distutils.core import setup from distutils.extension import Extension setup(name="myPy", ext_modules = [ Extension("MyPyExt", ["MyPyExt.cpp"], libraries = ["boost_python"]) ]) ```