Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] merging nsis installer for GTK1 and GTK2

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From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:09:39 -0000
>
> The normal windoze user probably won't make a backtrace.
> I think the official release doesn't need those symbol tables.
> If we really can reduce the size of each binary by 10 MB, we will get a
> much smaller installer and we can provide an installer with both a GTK1
> and the GTK2 build.
>
> What do we have to do to strip the symbol tables with MSVC?
>
> A switch in config.nmake would be very useful. Developers will build
> with those symbol tables, so they can do a backtrace and debugging.
>

AFAIK MSVC already strips symbols from executables, unless a debug build is
being produced.  This is the purpose of the pdb files which contain the
debug info for later perusal when debugging a release build.

Regards,
Graham Bloice