From: Harald Maier <harald@maierh.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2507@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2507: 23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:01:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23adxye6g.fsf@ate.maierh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1vtipxlz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:14:16 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:01:07 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>> Cc:
>>
>> strip emacs.exe
>> emacs -Q
>>
>> results in the OS popping an error dialog saying:
>>
>> emacs.exe is not a valid Win32 application
>
> More info: building Emacs like this:
>
> make USER_LDFLAGS=-s install
>
> produces an already stripped emacs.exe that is 8548352 bytes large.
> So this should serve as a stop-gap in case we cannot easily find a
> cure for running `strip' on the dumped Emacs.
>
> One further idea to ponder is that the fact we now compile with
> DWARF-2 debug info is the reason for the problem with stripping the
> dumped Emacs. Can someone please try rebuilding with "-gstabs"
> instead of "-gdwarf-2 -g3", and see if that produces an emacs.exe
> which can be safely stripped?
I tried the "-gstabs" debug info, but after stripping it didn't work
too. But the output size of that compilation and linking is far smaller.
Result: 12.55 MB (-gstabs) instead of 31.33 MB (-gdwarf2 -g3).
Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-01 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-28 11:01 bug#2507: 23.0.91; Stripping emacs.exe on MS-Windows produces an invalid program Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-28 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-01 6:01 ` Harald Maier [this message]
2009-03-01 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-02 11:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-03-02 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-11 13:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 14:12 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-11 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-11 16:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-11 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-11 19:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-12 4:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-12 11:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-07-13 14:16 ` Jason Rumney
2013-04-07 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-04 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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