Strip/Remove debug symbols and archive names from a static library - c++

Question

I have a static library (C++) (say, libmylib_DARWIN.a and libmylib_LINUX.a for 2 architectures) compiled on my Mac using clang (Apple LLVM version 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2) if is of any relevance).
Right now, there are two problems:
The static library (using a current build configuration) contains debug symbols
It also shows names of the object files that were used for the archive
otool -Iv libmylib_DARWIN.a
Archive : libmylib_DARWIN.a
libmylib_DARWIN.a(firstobjectfile.cpp.o)
libmylib_DARWIN.a(secondobjectfile.cpp.o)
....
I would like to remove both the debug symbols and archived filenames from this library. I wonder if there is a convenient way to do it without changing my build configuration.
will strip on Mac do it for both DARWIN- and LINUX-built libraries? Anything I should pay attention too?
strip doesn't seem to remove the archive filenames
There are some similar questions on SO; however, the ones I found deal with either iOS, Objective C, do not talk about multiplatform, and do not mention archive names.

Answer 1

This script implements Sigismondo's suggestion (unpacks the archive, strips each object file individually, renames them 1000.o, 1001.o, etc., and repacks). The parameters for ar crus may vary depending on your version of ar.
#!/bin/bash
# usage: repack.sh file.a
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "usage: repack file.a"
exit 1
fi
if [ -d tmprepack ]; then
/bin/rm -rf tmprepack
fi
mkdir tmprepack
cp $1 tmprepack
pushd tmprepack
basename=${1##*/}
ar xv $basename
/bin/rm -f $basename
i=1000
for p in *.o ; do
strip -d $p
mv $p ${i}.o
((i++))
done
ar crus $basename *.o
mv $basename ..
popd
/bin/rm -rf tmprepack
exit 0