[Lazarus] debugging and "strip --strip-all ./lazarus* ./startlazarus"

[Sven Barth]

On 27.12.2012 18:53, John Landmesser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Info:
> I use the svn version of lazarus, compile lazarus myself on a Debian Sid
> linux and windows XP.
>
> Question:
> do i loose any debugging possibilities of my own apps, if i strip
> lazarus as shown above?
>
> "man strip" tells me something about debugging symbols, but i think that
> does not concern my own appliaction.
>
> I gain half a GB if i strip ./Lazarus ./lazarus.old and ./startlazarus.
>
> I'll google now for command line parameters to strip these symbols, i
> know that these exists!

Why don't you just compile lazarus with "-Xs"? This should tell the 
compiler to remove all debug information from the executables, but still 
generates the debug information for the LCL.

Regards,
Sven