[Mingw-users] ld strip option

[Gisle V. <gv...@br...>]

Why won't the linker strip the symbols from the .exe or put a
valid PE header when doing:
  gcc -s -o test.exe test.o

Windows refuses to run it. AFAICS because the PE 
header says there are debug-symbols there, but the debug
data-directory is empty.

Only running strip in it allows the program to run. The only 
difference according to PEDUMP is:

--- test.dump-not-stripped    Mon Oct 26 22:04:23 2003
+++ test.dump-stripped        Mon Oct 26 22:04:37 2003
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 File Header
   Machine:                      014C (I386)
   Number of Sections:           0005
-  TimeDateStamp:                3F9C6DA5 -> Mon Oct 26 22:03:13 2003
-  PointerToSymbolTable:         00036400
+  TimeDateStamp:                3F9C6F1C -> Mon Oct 26 22:03:28 2003
+  PointerToSymbolTable:         00000000
   NumberOfSymbols:              00000000
   SizeOfOptionalHeader:         00E0
   Characteristics:              020F
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
   image version                 1.00
   subsystem version             4.00
   Win32 Version                 0
-  size of image                 3B000
-  size of headers               0
-  checksum                      41224
+  size of image                 3C000
+  size of headers               400
+  checksum                      39847
   Subsystem                     0003 (Windows character)

I'm not sure it's something to do with the binutils tools, but
rather some internals of Windows (since the latest hofixes).
Anybody got any experience with this?

I'm using MingW gcc 3.3.1 and binutils (ld version 2.13.90 20030111).

--gv