[Lazarus] Size of program executable very big...

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:35:31 +0100, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:37:39 +0200, Paul van Helden
><paul at planetgis.co.za> wrote:
>
>>The "Use external gdb debug symbol file (-Xg)" linking option works well for
>>me. It creates a 30MB .dbg file and a 5.4MB executable for my current
>>project.
>>
>>With this set, the "strip symbols from executable (-Xs)" option has no
>>impact and unchecking the -gl option only shaves of 6KB!
>
>That is probably what I will try tonight then. Seems reasonable to me.
>

With this option on the exe file reduced from 13 Mb to 1.6 Mb! :-)
Thanks!


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden