On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Vreman wrote:
> >> I suggested using Lazarus and the OP said he had great doubts because the > >> size of the exe of his test program is 10 times the size of that compiled > >> by > >> Borland. > > > > Anyone who writes such texts doesn't look further than his nose. > > Experience shows they will just hit the next thing which makes Lazarus > > "unusable". Don't expect such idiots to become Lazarus users. > > That is partly true. The problem is that setting -Xs doesn't help if there is > also -g in the > command line. So people think that the compiler strips the executable, but in > fact the binary is > unstripped. > > The easiest way to solve this is with a check in Lazarus. When the strip > checkbox is checked a > note shall be shown and asked to disable the debuginfo to make the option > work. > > The real solution is what a lot of people already asked for. Multiple build > modes like Visual C++ > also has. I think this is indeed the best, and should be not so hard to implement; At least the check would be already a hint to users. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
