RocksDB: static library size that's built from source is really large
c++, makefile, rocksdb
Solution
Probably the smaller achive is stripped of debug information.
You can use the `strip` command to remove symbols.
Problem
When I build RocksDB using `make static_lib` that produces a 200MB+ `librocksdb.a` file, but when I install the same version through a package manager (compared to both Brew and apt), the `.a` file is only about 11MB. What am I missing? Size of the library when building from source using `make static_lib`: ``` ubuntu@local:~/rocksdb-4.1$ du -sh librocksdb.a 238M librocksdb.a ``` Size of the library installed using `sudo apt-get install librocksdb-dev` on Xenial: ``` ubuntu@local:~/rocksdb-4.1$ du -sh /usr/lib/librocksdb.a 11M /usr/lib/librocksdb.a ``` Why is there such a big difference?