size of Win executable
lazarus / 11-Options

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focana · 2007-02-09 12:13

Hi all,

I am a new user of Lazarus but with some experience with
Borland Pascal and Delphi. First of all, I will like to thank to the
Lazarus development team for the possibility of using the
Pascal language.

I have a program coded in Pascal with a GUI developed in Delphi
under Windows.
Some weeks ago I decided to get a Lazarus version of this program.
In order to practice with Lazarus, I designed the GUI with Lazarus
from the scratch. My problem is that I have observed that
the Lazarus executable release is a file whose size is
around 6826KB, much bigger than the Delphi executable, which
has a size of 478KB.  ¿Is  a so big difference normal ?

Many thanks in advance

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RudieD · 2007-02-09 16:39

Please check the Wiki.
(http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/File_size_and_smartlinking)

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felipemdc · 2007-02-09 19:32

This is also on the FAQ on the Wiki

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Avram · 2007-02-12 16:16

Shortly: Use strip to strip debug data (at least this is working in
Linux, but I think you'll get strip.exe with Windows version of
Lazarus). Then you can use UPX or othere exe compressor to
additionally compress executable.

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Gintas · 2008-02-12 08:33

I am using 0.9.24 and tried to compile basic program with LCL,some
kind a notepad. I tried variuos linking options,but always get big
11.5mb executable file. I tried to check all options as in image from
wiki page above.

I will try command line options. I would be a mircale to get a file
less than one MB.

That huge executables stops me from making some projects on Lazarus
IDE.

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Almindor · 2008-02-12 11:00

That's really sad.. are you still using diskettes? Might be better to
update, such a horrible 1mb on todays 120gb drives, must be killing
the customers...

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LazaruX · 2008-02-12 14:15

Hey Alminador2, its not a question of diskettes, you see, I have
installed Lazarus on a USB stick (2 GB) and all my projects are there,
and compilying, compyling, now I already have 600 MB of disk full,
thats a lot on a USB stick.
However the solution is already available, so I invite newbies to read
the FAQ, questions like the one above are so frustrating for old forum
readers

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Leledumbo · 2008-02-13 04:53

QuoteI tried variuos linking options
such as?

Try to find these switch in compiler options dialog, then check them
(uncheck others):
-CX -XX -Xs -Os

An empty form should have a size about 900 KB.

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MisterKode · 2008-11-15 04:42

I tried all the options as well and my executable comes out at 12 meg
no matter what I do. For a program with only 2 buttons, a few labels
and editboxes, it sure seems to be a huge filesize    :?

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Leledumbo · 2008-11-15 06:46

There seems to be something wrong with the linker, just do manual
strip as suggested above.
e.g.: strip -s yourprogram

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arnoldb · 2008-11-17 18:10

All

This question comes up so frequently - Is there a way to add a
'sticky' subject on the forums so that everyone can get it the moment
they start browsing the forums?

Just a thought.... But it might be handy