[Lazarus] Large program size - 1.8 MB for empty GUI project

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:25:16PM -0300, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> The application is not empty. If you check the symbols inside the
> application you will see that almost all LCL components are added, and
> PNG support, XML library, etc, etc, etc, even if not used. The
> smartlinking is simply not yet good enought to remove those parts.

Note that unneeded parts in an .exe might also be a LCL architectural
problem, not necessarily per se smartlinking. Often if units are referenced,
init code is run that touches a lot of stuff.
 
> This isn't such a big deal because hello world applications are
> useless, in real world applications you will need to use multiple
> components, have graphics support, use xml, etc, and those are already
> there, so your EXE size won't grow when you need them.

Correct. 1MB is nothing to worry about. 10 MB is not even something to worry
about, if it starts swiftly.