[Psi-devel] compiling psi on windows

[matthias sweertvaegher]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:55:20 +0100, Norman Rasmussen  
<norman at rasmussen.co.za> wrote:

> 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)

thanks for the info, but the filesize remained the same.
I tried both
strip -s psi.exe
and
strip -S psi.exe
The former is equivalent to --strip-all, the latter to --strip-debug

anyway, the most important thing is I got it to build and run, so
I can play around with it :)

greets
matthias

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