[Lazarus] A simple way to stop the never ending story of long executable?

[Denis Kozlov]

I also agree with "Use external gdb debug symbols file" being ON by 
default for a new Lazarus project.

Unless of course some debug info formats didn't support it, which would 
raise other questions.

This is only a default option for new projects, which would affect 
mostly new users or quick test projects, where it should always be 
beneficial to keep executable file small.

Denis


On 20/05/2017 11:24, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus wrote:
> I had tried in remote times to activate the "use external gdb debug 
> symbols file" option, and it didn't work properly, so I forgot about 
> it. But some time ago I tried again, and now it turns out to work 
> perfectly, at least under Linux.
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to set it active by default?
>
> This could make unnecessary in many cases a different build mode for 
> testing and for deploying, and would stop the complaints about "long 
> executable".
>
> Giuliano
>
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