Reducing the Size of Libkml Static library for iOS

[Raj Pawan Gumdal]

I have checked out recent version of the code of libkml. I am trying to integrate the libkml static library into my iOS app.

Bascially, my simple purpose of doing it is as described in my Stackoverflow post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16190882/point-in-kml-polygon-c-c-code

I have mailed the author of libkml the same and I have got a lovely github gist for it on which I am further working:

https://gist.github.com/mashbridge/5464228

I have integrated the sources of libkml with my iOS project and I was surprised to see that when I build the libkml static library to link it across with my native iOS application, the size of libkml static library is a whooping 100+ MB. I am not very sure why the size of library is so huge.

I would like to learn more about libkml and in the process, also, would like to contribute back to the community the changes which I am currently doing. So, if I would have some pointers about why the library is so huge, perhaps, we can split up the library into multiple components which can be used by the users independently depending on their requirements(?)

Just thoughts, please educate me here :)

Thank you.