Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

brianreinhold — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:14:56 GMT

The reason for removing unused source from the project is simply to reduce it's massive size when you want to distribute the project around. It will also reduce rebuild times. Going method by method would be quite tedious as there is no clear way to know if you have caught everything. In the end its beginning to look like the only feasible way to do this is to remove a file, build, and see if it succeeds.

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

awneil — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:12:47 GMT

but you know which source file each method comes from

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

brianreinhold — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:56:54 GMT

I will have to check again but I recall it was methods, not entire object file.

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

awneil — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:34:47 GMT

I think the map file should show you what source files correspond to the code ?

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

brianreinhold — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:32:10 GMT

I looked at the map file and see that it does remove unused code. I would still like to remove files from the project that I don't use

RE: Easy way to remove unused elements of the SDK

awneil — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:25:15 GMT

[quote userid="83646" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/70275/easy-way-to-remove-unused-elements-of-the-sdk"]I don't know if the Keil compiler/linker is able to filter out unused object code[/quote]

yes, it should be.

GCC certainly can.