"Invalid Nexe binary" error after using "strip"

Is this a BUG or a FEATURE REQUEST?: BUG

What happened: Running binary through strip breaks it.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Build binary:

$ nexe index.js --build
ℹ nexe 2.0.0-rc.34
✔ Source already downloaded
✔ Compiling result
✔ Entry: 'index.js' written to: test
✔ Finished in 0.42s

It works:

$ ./test 
Hello world

Now it doesn’t work:

$ strip test
$ ./test 

_third_party_main.js:8
    throw 'Invalid Nexe binary';
    ^
Invalid Nexe binary

Environment

• Platform(OS/Version): Debian Sid
• Host Node Version: v8.12.0
• Target Node Version: v8.12.0
• Nexe version: 2.0.0-rc.34
• Python Version: 2.7.15+ and 3.6.6+

[borisovg]

That works - thanks!

[crisdosyago]

That works - thanks!

This is awesome. That’s a great workaround 😃