(In reply to Fridrich Strba from comment #10) > Ralf, is this still something to keep open? Extracting debug symbols for a larger package currently still takes 10 minutes https://build.opensuse.org/build/windows:mingw:win32/openSUSE_Leap_15.4/x86_64/mingw32-clang13/_log per build. If you think this is ok, we can close this. Otherwise, there are two potential ways to fix this. 1. use the objdump option -WL with any necessary adjustments https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29505#c15 2. extend LD so that debug symbols are written directly to a debug file https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29505#c17 With the first option there is an estimate that it could be up to 95% faster, but might need to be extended to get all relevant information. For the second option there is no estimation of the time gain yet.