Research on making reverse engineer proof C++ apps

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1. Tools for analyzing and exploring executables
  strings, nm, readelf, objdump
  
2. Compiler flags to exclude global symbol table and information generated by compiler(Also removing dead code)
  "-fvisibility=hidden -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,-s -Wl,--exclude-libs=ALL"
  
3. Making program safe against nm command by stripping unnecessary code sections 
  "strip -S -R .comment -R .note -R .note.ABI-tag <exec name>"
  
4. Removing linkage details and used library names from the executable(removing RPATH and RUNPATH info)
  "chrpath -d <exec name>"
 
5. Obfuscating constant expression and strings from the code
  This one is the trickiest and requires using libraries and tools for obfuscation
  Some useful projects: https://github.com/Snowapril/String-Obfuscator-In-Compile-Time
                        https://github.com/adamyaxley/Obfuscate