Strip Executable (Windows)

I've heard that strip is a program that makes an executable smaller.

I've tried to turn it on 开发者_运维知识库from my compiler (for Python) but when it comes to run strip I just see "strip is not recognized as a command or as a program" error from the Command Prompt.

So where do I get the executable of strip for Windows?

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strip is part of GNU's binutils.

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Unix/Linux style strip will remove symbol info that is used for debugging purposes. AFAIK under Windows a strip utility is specific to the compiler that was used. See here on SO for more info.

A related utility that might be useful is StripReloc, a utility that removes relocation info from executables and as such makes them smaller. Read the instructions though, it's not recommended to run it blindly against every .exe on your system...

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Strip removes information such as debugging symbols from object files. Doing this makes the file smaller.

If you have it, it would likely be distributed with your C compiler (such as GCC).