[Lazarus] Size of binaries etc.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:03:11 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

>[...]
> I add -CX to the build options inside the IDE, set up a virgin project 
> and build it. Binary size is 2,161,352 bytes.
> 
> So what appears to be happening is that on Linux (and possibly other 
> unix) a  make bigide  results in an LCL etc. that isn't smartlinkable, 
> and the only way to get it is to insert -CX in the IDE's Tools -> 
> Configure "Build Lazarus" setup, despite the fact that the user isn't 
> intentionally rebuilding.
> 
> I wonder where that leaves somebody who is trying to build a project 
> with lazbuild, i.e. never using the IDE?

You can add it to fpc.cfg or to ~/.lazarus/miscellaneousoptions.xml

Mattias