Restricting symbols in a Linux static library

Question

I\'m looking for ways to restrict the number of C symbols exported to a Linux static library (archive). I\'d like to limit these to only those symbols that are part of the

Answer 1

My way of doing it is to mark everything that is not to be exported with INTERNAL, include guard all .h files, compile dev builds with -DINTERNAL= and compile release builds with a single .c file that includes all other library .c files with -DINTERNAL=static.