prevent compiling from generating dSYM on OS X (using make)

Question

I've got a c++ project (open source) that does not need to strip debugging symbols by default. With a lot of test executables, there are a lot of dSYM files generated on OS X. I've tried -g3 as a g++ flag to no avail. Ideas?

Thanks! Juan

Answer 1

If you're compiling with the "-g" flag, remove it.

Answer 2

As Ted Mielczarek pointed out, gcc does not produce dSYM files on its own, it simply stores the information needed to produce them in the object files. If you're using make to build your project, it is most likely that there is a separate step in the makefile which runs dsymutil after compiling/linking the executable, see if you can find and remove it.