[Lazarus] Size of binaries etc.

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 03:33:17PM +0300, Juha Manninen wrote:
> I added -CX to the Configure Build Lazarus dialog for "Optimized IDE"
> profile on my Mint Linux 64-bit + QT mapping.
> It made absolutely no difference for executable size! Why?

-CX compiles units with smartlinking

-XX compiles binaries with smartlinking.

When -XX is used, only units compiled with -CX will give size benefits (if
relevant)