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

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 26/05/2017 23:14, Bo Berglund via Lazarus ha scritto:
> On Sat, 20 May 2017 12:24:01 +0200, Giuliano Colla via Lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> ...would stop the complaints about "long executable".
> How about strip -s <filename> as a post-compile step before shipping?
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>
That way you erase the debug symbols. If later a user complains about a 
bug, or about a supposed bug, you're forced to recompile everything, and 
if something has changed in between, you can't tell what's the cause of 
the trouble.

If you keep the debug symbols in a separate file, you have the best of 
both worlds. You may choose whether to ship debug symbols or not, you 
may debug again exactly the same binary you shipped, you may ship later 
the debug symbols if you need to have someone debug on the field, etc. 
etc. It's just a compiler flag you never need to change. Then it's up to 
you to decide what to ship and what to keep.

Giuliano