From: jeffdb@netzone.com ("Mikey") Subject: Re: Windows API calls that don't work? (Was RE: Stupid stupid question :/) 24 Mar 1997 12:30:01 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703241434.HAA06803.cygnus.gnu-win32@nz1.netzone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "Colin Peters" Original-Cc: "cygnus" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com In answer to your last question, ld -s (strips) an executable incorrectly, and from what I understand makes it unusable on NT, you keep getting not owner errors, it also removes exactly the information strip.exe needs to work, so that using strip.exe on a .exe produced with ld -s fails with "truncated file". strip.exe (strips) an executable correctly. > PS. Any confirmations on that statement about NT from other readers? > Does stripping an executable make it work? Do you *have* to strip > on NT? Is there a difference between the -s link option and using > strip after linking? > - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".