[Lazarus] Install FPC and Lazarus from source
Sven Barth
pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sat Dec 12 18:23:19 CET 2015
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
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