[Lazarus] Compiled file size (again)

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Jürgen Hestermann
<juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
> I know this topic has been discussed multiple times but I am astonished
> about it repeatedly.

Did you check how big are other widely used cross-platform frameworks?

1> Java -> Something like 50MB for Windows

2> Qt -> The bare minimum installer which I managed to obtain for a
Mac OS X LCL-Qt application was 28MB
http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnifier/files/magnifier%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/3.3.2/

And that's zipped.

Now I switched to LCL-Carbon and the size of the installer went down to 1,6MB

http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnifier/files/magnifier%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/3.6/

3> Gtk. I'd say at least 100MB for all the crap it brings in

But your post was indeed useful. I was already since some time worried
about the LCL-CustomDrawn-Android file size and I installed Cody and
it helped me chop off 2MB out of the file size due to units wrongly
added to the uses clause. It is still 2x bigger then the same project
built against LCL-CustomDrawn-X11, which is very strange, since the
source code is nearly identical. Maybe smartlinking for arm is much
worse then for x86?

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho