Re: make dist target for Windows

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> It's not a GCC option, it's an objcopy option (--only-keep-debug).
> See the section in the GDB manual pointed to by Jan for more details.
>
> However, as this option is a close relative of `strip', I'm afraid
> that it might not work, for the same (unknown) reasons stripping the
> dumped Emacs executable doesn't work.

Right. In fact, looking at the documentation, objcopy is used to extract
the debug info to a separate file, then strip is used to remove them from
the original application.  So it involves finding a way to make strip
work.