[Mingw-users] Invalid PointerToSymbolTable and other issues reported by PE Studio.

[Diego C. <dca...@gm...>]

Hi there,

I've just subscribed to this list to ask some things i'm curious about.

Using PE Studio, it reports:

"The PointerToSymbolTable is Invalid (it should be 0)"

Checking the File Header, it points out:

"PointerToSymbolTable 0x000A5A00"

I should note i'm stripping the executable using:

mingw32-strip -s --remove-section=.comment my.exe

If i don't use that, i also get:

The NumberOfSymbols is Invalid (it should be 0)

I'm wondering, does that means mingw32-strip is doing something
incorrectly and that's why PointerToSymbolTable is invalid, or what's
going on?


Also, by linking statically with libcurl it reports:

"The image exports 57 Duplicated Symbol(s)"

All these symbols are curl functions, is there some linking command i
could use to avoid this or it's just some issue with the static lib
mistakenly exporting them?


Btw, i'm using GCC 4.8.1 and Binutils 2.23.2 (latest pkgs retrieved
using mingw-get)

Thanks in advance for any help you might bring,

Cheers.