Eliminate unused Haxe code in final SWF

[Harsh Gupta]

I'm compiling the test AIR app with FD4 and Haxe 3.0.1, with the "-dce full" flag set. It still creates an SWF with lots of classes like Boot and Lib, and Boot has a lot of unused functions like log and trace. Can these unused functions be removed?

[postite]

try to compile with --no-traces in your hxml
remove -debug flag also.

[Harsh Gupta]

I've done that but I still get the "_string_rec", "_trace",
"__clear_trace", "enum_to_string" functions under the flash.Boot class,
among others.

Any way to exclude these from building in? Why does haxe keep these
functions even though they are not used?

I've submitted an issue, I hope its ok :
https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/issues/2674

[Chris D]

I thought dce was a js only feature?

[Peter Stefcek]

I had similar problems https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haxelang/iiAFuFOF2jk

Anyway I discovered there is no way to remove Boot, Dynamic and Lib dependency. Although most of it can be removed.