> On Apr 16, 2019, at 11:52 PM, Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> <my-edk2-folder>/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Application/UiApp/UiApp/DEBUG/UiApp.dll is generated by GenFw tool. When GenFw tool convert ELF image to EFI image, it inserts the debug entry with the below string.
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Liming,

Is there a way to turn it off? Does it follow the -g flag passed to the compiler? Can you post process with GenFw --zero to remove it? 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish


> Thanks
> Liming
>  <>From: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>] On Behalf Of Pedro Barbosa
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:46 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] Remove debug strings from OVMF.fd
>
> Hi EDK2 developers,
>
> I'm trying to build OVMF without debug symbols but even building as RELEASE, I still can see some strings on the PE files, such as:
> <my-edk2-folder>/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Application/UiApp/UiApp/DEBUG/UiApp.dll
> and many others in the format */DEBUG/*.dll
>
> Is there a way to build without these strings?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> []s
> 
> Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa
> Security Engineer, Google
> PhD in Computer Science, UFCG, Brazil
> sites.google.com/site/pedroysb <http://sites.google.com/site/pedroysb>
>