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

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

Hi there,

Marc (PeStudio Author) kindly replied me pointing out "GCC compiled
binaries have some fields which do not "comply" to the Windows
Portable Executable specification
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/hardware/gg463125)" amongst
other helpful info.

So, basically both you were correct.

fwiw, i've tried -gcoff, -gstabs, and -gstabs+ and these warnings were
still shown. However, by accident i've found that passing
"-Wl,--strip-all" to the linker rather than using the "strip" command
gets rid of them!

Hence, letting the linker strip the executable causes the following
warnings to go away:

- The PointerToSymbolTable is Invalid (it should be 0)
- The NumberOfSymbols is Invalid (it should be 0)
- The image contains an Overlay (Offset: 0x000A5A00, Size: 14 Bytes)

Maybe there is some issue with the mingw32-strip program after all.

Thank you both for the help. Btw, if some clue about the 57 exported
curl symbols please let me know :)

Cheers.