From 3fa6a6667c91097043f63e6b1c12094bab75294a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Mehta <neil@lmstudio.ai>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:21:57 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Do not strip VC redists

---
 src/release.rs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/release.rs b/src/release.rs
index 21fa1b2c..ebdb6fdb 100644
--- a/src/release.rs
+++ b/src/release.rs
@@ -511,8 +511,12 @@ pub fn convert_to_stripped<W: Write>(
                 | FileKind::Pe32
                 | FileKind::Pe64)
         ) {
-            data = llvm_strip(&data, llvm_dir)
-                .with_context(|| format!("failed to strip {}", path.display()))?;
+            // Skip stripping MSVC runtime DLLs
+            let filename = path.file_name().and_then(|n| n.to_str());
+            if !matches!(filename, Some("vcruntime140.dll" | "vcruntime140_1.dll")) {
+                data = llvm_strip(&data, llvm_dir)
+                    .with_context(|| format!("failed to strip {}", path.display()))?;
+            }
         }
 
         let mut header = entry.header().clone();