iOS Static Library Debug Symbols not being in included in dSYM

Question

I\'m working on a series of iOS apps which will share a common codebase. I\'ve developed the common codebase as a static library and want it\'s debug symbols included in the pri

Answer 1

Static lib symbols do show up in an app's dSYM file, and dwarfdump will reveal that.

 dwarfdump -a path/to/app.dSYM >dsymAsText.txt

That should show you the lib's symbols.

However if you are (as I have been recently) looking for a symbol table to be generated to go along with just your static lib, I have come to the conclusion that it will be fairly useless; once it get compiled into a new app those symbols and addresses will all change and you will have an entirely different offset for everything (please someone correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm not entirely sure there's a way to get around that part.