[Lazarus] Linux and Strip

[Grizzly(Francis Smit)]

matt shaffer wrote:
> Is there a strip program for Linux? Well I'm using Ubuntu and
> installed 9.26-4 from the repositories, and having no idea where
> everything installed to I just did a search of my entire drive for
> "strip". The only program found was in a non-FPC specific directory
> and using it had no effect on the size of my app. The app is compiled
> for GTK2, and is smaller than the default windows binary (11mb vs
> 2.7mb), but the Windows binary can be stripped to 1.3mb. While size
> isn't everything, I'm just wondering if ~3mb for a very simplistic, 1
> form app seems right on Linux (in regards to Lazarus apps) as I've
> never dealt with developing apps for it before.
it should be /usr/bin/strip but you probably haven't got it installed so
install it first