Misc. Build Options

  • -no-debug Disable outputting debug symbols. This can be useful for WebAssembly, as there is no debugger for .wasm files yet and .wasm files are generally served directly. Avoiding debug symbols can have a big impact on generated binary size, reducing them by more than half. This is not necessary on microcontrollers because debugging symbols are not flashed to the microcontroller. Additionally, you will need it when you use tinygo gdb. In general, it is recommended to include debug symbols unless you have a good reason not to. Note: while there is some support for debug symbols, only line numbers have been implemented so far. That means single-stepping and stacktraces work just fine, but no variables can be inspected.

  • -size Print size (none, short, or full) of the output (linked) binary. Note that the calculated size includes RAM reserved for the stack.

  • none (default) Print nothing.

  • short Print size statistics, roughly like what the size binutils program would print but with useful flash and RAM columns:

    code    data     bss |   flash     ram
5780     144    2132 |    5924    2276

  • full Try to determine per package how much space is used. Note that these calculations are merely guesses and can somethimes be way off due to various reasons like inlining:

    code  rodata    data     bss |   flash     ram | package
876        0       4       0 |     880       4 | (bootstrap)
38         0       0       0 |      38       0 | device/arm
0          0       0      66 |       0      66 | machine
2994     440     124       0 |    3558     124 | main
948      127       4       1 |    1079       5 | runtime
4856     567     132      67 |    5555     199 | (sum)
5780       -     144    2132 |    5924    2276 | (all)