What is the best option to strip debug/extra information using "strip"

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Hey guys, on Windows when I run cargo build --release doesn't remove every single debug related stuff, so I believe I have to use strip

so when I man strip, I get this:

Usage: strip <option(s)> in-file(s)
 Removes symbols and sections from files
 The options are:
  -I --input-target=<bfdname>      Assume input file is in format <bfdname>
  -O --output-target=<bfdname>     Create an output file in format <bfdname>
  -F --target=<bfdname>            Set both input and output format to <bfdname>
  -p --preserve-dates              Copy modified/access timestamps to the output
  -D --enable-deterministic-archives
                                   Produce deterministic output when stripping archives
  -U --disable-deterministic-archives
                                   Disable -D behavior (default)
  -R --remove-section=<name>       Also remove section <name> from the output
     --remove-relocations <name>   Remove relocations from section <name>
  -s --strip-all                   Remove all symbol and relocation information
  -g -S -d --strip-debug           Remove all debugging symbols & sections
     --strip-dwo                   Remove all DWO sections
     --strip-unneeded              Remove all symbols not needed by relocations
     --only-keep-debug             Strip everything but the debug information
  -M  --merge-notes                Remove redundant entries in note sections (default)
      --no-merge-notes             Do not attempt to remove redundant notes
  -N --strip-symbol=<name>         Do not copy symbol <name>
  -K --keep-symbol=<name>          Do not strip symbol <name>
     --keep-file-symbols           Do not strip file symbol(s)
  -w --wildcard                    Permit wildcard in symbol comparison
  -x --discard-all                 Remove all non-global symbols
  -X --discard-locals              Remove any compiler-generated symbols
  -v --verbose                     List all object files modified
  -V --version                     Display this program's version number
  -h --help                        Display this output
     --info                        List object formats & architectures supported
  -o <file>                        Place stripped output into <file>
strip: supported targets: pe-i386 pei-i386 elf32-i386 elf32-iamcu elf32-little elf32-big plugin srec symbolsrec verilog tekhex binary ihex

So if I specify the -s flag which specifies to Remove all symbol and relocation information, so does this also remove any debug information as well?

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How about using cargo's unstable profile strip option?

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I could do this but I would have to use cargo nightly and I am not comfortable using it as it is unstable.

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On windows debug symbols etc are stored in separate .pdb file so there's nothing to strip on executable. How did you man on windows btw?

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But then if your code panics then how come it shows the entire file path if I just copied the executable to another computer?

Actually when I type strip then it comes up with its man instructions that is what I mean.

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It is part of the std::panic::Location object used when a panic is started.

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