[Lazarus] Size of binaries etc.
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Wed Mar 21 21:19:12 CET 2012
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:42:23AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Before anything else: I've read and digested the wiki page on binary
> size, and the related FAQ entry.
Good.
> I'm knocking together a couple of programs in Lazarus to do jobs
> relating to IBM mainframes, partly because the existing tools run only
> on Windows, and partly to showcase Lazarus's capabilities in the
> mainframe community.
>
> A program built using (some version of) Delphi comes to about 317Kb, but
> even with a manual strip the best I can do with Lazarus/FPC is pushing
> 3Mb.
With (some version of) Lazarus, or with the current version ? :-)
Older versions are smaller, also with Lazarus. And, as with older Delphi's
essentially unsupported.
> Now for domestic consumption I can live with that, but I don't
> think it looks very good if I publish binaries for download, and by the
> time I've got to several different OSes, CPUs and widget sets it's
> taking a significant amount of storage.
Yes. 300 of them are 1 GB, about $0.1 worth of harddisk space at $100/TB.
Uncompressed. About a buck if you use enterprise discs.
> The FPC I'm using has been built from source, but I see I'm not using
> OPT='-CX' or similar... should I be?
-CX to build units and -XX to use programs (and both for a combination).
The -CX is the "compile" part, -XX is the hint to the linker.
> The Lazarus I'm using has been built from source (make bigide). Should
> this have extra options to force everything possible in the LCL to be
> smartlinkable? Or once I've got the initial IDE should I be using it to
> rebuild itself, and in that case are there any options to be set?
>
> Is there anything else obvious that I'm missing?
Debug info (-Xs aka strip) and smartlinking (-CX -XX) are the main ones.
The -XXs sometimes fails with some external linker versions. When in doubt,
manually use the strip command, except on windows targets.
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