Yeah I have /usr/bin/strip; I thought that the strip was Lazarus / FPC - specific. Guess not. Anyway, running that on my app leaves it at 2.7mb still so I guess that's as small as it's going to get. Thanks for the info<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Grizzly(Francis Smit) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grizzly@smit.id.au">grizzly@smit.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote:<br>
> matt shaffer wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Is there a strip program for Linux? Well I'm using Ubuntu and<br>
>> installed 9.26-4 from the repositories, and having no idea where<br>
>> everything installed to I just did a search of my entire drive for<br>
>> "strip". The only program found was in a non-FPC specific directory<br>
>> and using it had no effect on the size of my app. The app is compiled<br>
>> for GTK2, and is smaller than the default windows binary (11mb vs<br>
>> 2.7mb), but the Windows binary can be stripped to 1.3mb. While size<br>
>> isn't everything, I'm just wondering if ~3mb for a very simplistic, 1<br>
>> form app seems right on Linux (in regards to Lazarus apps) as I've<br>
>> never dealt with developing apps for it before.<br>
>><br>
> it should be /usr/bin/strip but you probably haven't got it installed so<br>
> install it first<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>u need to install binutils to get strip<br>
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