Wow, that works perfectly! Thank you so much! The --add-gnu-debuglink=x.debug bit was what I was missing.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like delve supports separate debug info yet, so I'll have to stick with gdb in these situations. Also, it seems that upx[1] breaks the debuglink, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable (I'm mostly including this tidbit in case someone else in a similar situation to mine finds this post) [1]: https://upx.github.io/ On Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at 12:26:24 PM UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 8:43 AM ethan.pailes via golang-nuts > <golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > The C ecosystem allows one to generate a separate file containing debug > info so that you can initially install a stripped library or binary and > then only pull in the debug info as needed. I'm interested in doing the > same for go, but I have not been able to find an equivalent to the > -gsplit-dwarf compiler flag. I've tried using `objcopy --only-keep-debug` > to generate a .debug file, but it didn't seem to take. > > > > Has anyone else gone down this road? I would also be glad to hear that > this is just known not to be possible at this point so that I can stop > digging. > > > > For a little context as to why I want to do this, we are using go on > embedded devices and we would like to keep our payload size down for OTA > updates so we would rather avoid shipping debug info that will only be used > rarely. > > I would expect the objcopy approach to work. > > go build x > objcopy --only-keep-debug x x.debug > objcopy --strip-debug --add-gnu-debuglink=x.debug x x.stripped > > Where does that go wrong? > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b6d292e8-8dd6-432b-8f99-6ed87ae0d321o%40googlegroups.com.
