[Lazarus] Install FPC and Lazarus from source

[Sven Barth]

On 12.12.2015 17:27, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:32:15 +0100, Bo Berglund
> <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, what is the purpose of strip -s lazarus?
>>
> Answering this myself after looking at strip -help:
> It strips all embedded symbols from the lazarus program file!
>
> I tried it in a Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon virtual machine on my Win7
> laptop and amazingly the file size shrunk:
> from  102,683,731 bytes
> to     26,751,376 bytes
>
> Quite amazingly much!
>

strip removes the debug information stored in the binary. So in that 
case you won't get detailed exception information (stack trace) inside 
Lazarus if an exception occurs there.

Regards,
Sven