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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Reenen Laurie schrieb:
> 2009/4/8 Alexey S. Smirnov <betatester at rambler.ru>:
>> The Smart Link process should check what variables/functions/definitions are
>> used in your project to cut off unused code. It is really simple to do so,
>> if some units are listed in Implementation section - linker will only add
>> unit functions that are mentioned in you code, not more.
>> If units are listed in Interface section - it mean that potentially all
>> code  from that particular unit should be included. Because your global
>> variable/class should have access to all provided
>> code/procedures/properties.
> 
> Marc Weustink (i think wrote):
>> Just a note: some people think that units can be compiled in one pass -
>> this is not true. The compiler must stop on every Uses clause, and
> 
> So .exe's should be (much) smaller if your uses units are put mostly
> in implementation (not easy to find circular references), but we say
> rather put it in interface?

No. The location where a unit is included (interface/implementation)
does not matter for smartlinking. If you really want try to drop exe
size, play with the whole program optimization implemented by Jonas in
trunk.