Re: [Mingw-users] How to strip?

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

mmikkone wrote:
> 
> Well that's what I thought: it should work! But when I tried it last time, it
> failed every time. However, now that I tried it again, it worked???! I have
> rebooted my computer since the last time I tried, so I guess, there was
> something else wrong... Damnation, I'm so up to my hair tips fed up with
> this project right now... :( Taking a break. Now.

My first thought when I read your original mail is that the dll was in
use when you were trying to execute the strip command so the overlay of
the temporary file to the original file failed.  Unlike *nix you cannot
overwrite a file that is open in Windows.  However, you can open the
file, mark it for delete on close, rename it and then create the
original file name.  Perhaps someone could create a patch for strip and
other file utilities to do this action on Windows.

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