On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:25:16PM -0300, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > The application is not empty. If you check the symbols inside the > application you will see that almost all LCL components are added, and > PNG support, XML library, etc, etc, etc, even if not used. The > smartlinking is simply not yet good enought to remove those parts.
Note that unneeded parts in an .exe might also be a LCL architectural problem, not necessarily per se smartlinking. Often if units are referenced, init code is run that touches a lot of stuff. > This isn't such a big deal because hello world applications are > useless, in real world applications you will need to use multiple > components, have graphics support, use xml, etc, and those are already > there, so your EXE size won't grow when you need them. Correct. 1MB is nothing to worry about. 10 MB is not even something to worry about, if it starts swiftly. _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
