Debug symbols for mingw binaries

[Andre Heinecke]

Hi,
Does anyone have experience in stripping of and providing debug symbol 
packages for MinGW built binaries on Windows?

Currently i am having the problem that i want to get backtraces from users if 
their software crashes but i dont want to double the size of the binaries.
(Kdepim on Windows lzma compressed package is ~125% larger with debug symbols)
Since I do not believe that i am the first person having that problem i wanted 
to ask your experiences with strip on Windows before i research the matter 
further.

I've tried running strip just over every binary in lib / bin after emerge was 
done completly, which resulted in at least some broken binaries. (Maybe a bug 
in strip ? )

I think we should probably have emerge run strip after the compile process (of 
a SourceBased package when using mingw) like debian does when creating debian 
packages and create a subfolder /debug/packagename where the results would be 
stored. So that emerge --package could then create debug packages 
accordingly.

Regards
Andre

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