.dSYM files generated from command line (Mac)

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pyrrhic picture pyrrhic · Jul 19, 2013 · Viewed 19.5k times · Source

I just started coding in C, and ran someone else's Makefile with the default C compiler set to gcc. I am on Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and I believe I installed the compiler with "XCode Command Line Tools." After running "make" on command line, I get these annoying .dSYM files for each program. I read that these are debug files, but are they really necessary? Is there any way to prevent them from being generated from command line?

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Brendan Berg picture Brendan Berg · Sep 22, 2013

The -g flag to GCC will generate debug symbols. You may simply remove that flag from CFLAGS.

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