[Psi-devel] compiling psi on windows

[Norman Rasmussen]

On 11/8/06, matthias sweertvaegher <gmatti3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I did the debug build, I had 1 big file as the build result in the
> psi/src/debug dir, which was 71,5 MB.
>
> With the release build, I still have 1 'big' file which is 7 MB. Do you
> mean the .pdb file information is included in the exe? Do I have to
> change some project setting in order to disable this debugger info?

The .pdb file (created by msvc builds), contains the line number
information for the binary.  It's 100% fine to distribute the
resulting build without it.  I think with mingw that the information
is combined, but it can be stripped out (using `strip`).

As a quick note: You can debug a core dump that was generated by a
crash in a stripped executable (as long as you have the non-stripped
executable for the debugger to load)

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