[Lazarus] Install FPC and Lazarus from source

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 17:27:34 CET 2015


On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:32:15 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Also, what is the purpose of strip -s lazarus?
>
Answering this myself after looking at strip -help:
It strips all embedded symbols from the lazarus program file!

I tried it in a Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon virtual machine on my Win7
laptop and amazingly the file size shrunk:
from  102,683,731 bytes
to     26,751,376 bytes

Quite amazingly much!

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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