PellesC IDE debugger support .dbg files.
With this tool you can take away debug information from exe
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <imagehlp.h>
#pragma lib "imagehlp.lib"
TCHAR szAppName[] = "PEStripW";
/*
BOOL SplitSymbols(PSTR ImageName, PSTR SymbolsPath, PSTR SymbolFilePath, DWORD Flags);
SPLITSYM_EXTRACT_ALL, SPLITSYM_REMOVE_PRIVATE, SPLITSYM_SYMBOLPATH_IS_SRC
*/
int LastError(HWND hWnd)
{
LPVOID lpMsgBuf;
FormatMessage(
FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER | FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM,
NULL,
GetLastError(),
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // Default language
(LPTSTR) &lpMsgBuf,
0,
NULL
);
// Display the string.
MessageBox( hWnd, lpMsgBuf, szAppName, MB_OK|MB_ICONERROR );
// Free the buffer.
LocalFree( lpMsgBuf );
return 0;
}
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
int nLen;
TCHAR szTmp[260], szDbgFile[260];
if (!*lpCmdLine) {
MessageBox(0, TEXT("usage: PEStrip.exe file"), szAppName, MB_OK);
return 1;
}
//wsprintf(szDbgFile, "%s.dbg", lpCmdLine);
lstrcpy(szDbgFile, lpCmdLine);
nLen = lstrlen(szDbgFile);
lstrcpy(&szDbgFile[nLen-3], TEXT("dbg"));
if (SplitSymbols(lpCmdLine, NULL, szDbgFile, SPLITSYM_EXTRACT_ALL)) {
wsprintf(szTmp, TEXT("%s stripped to %s"), lpCmdLine, szDbgFile);
MessageBox(0, szTmp, szAppName, MB_OK);
} else {
//wsprintf(szTmp, "%s: Error %d", lpCmdLine, GetLastError());
//MessageBox(0, szTmp, szAppName, MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR);
LastError(0);
}
return 0;
}
To generate a .DBG file in this format, you can use REBASE.EXE, which is provided with the Win32 SDK.
Please see the Win32 SDK documentation for more details.
PellesC have porebase.exe for that too.