Zitat von Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > 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.
Yes. There are two LCL design problems with smart linking: - published properties/methods needed for RTTI forms - the register mechanism of the LCL interfaces The first could theoretically be remedied like KOL did. The later was done to keep the code maintainable. Smart linking could be improved a lot, but not without a price. > > 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. Mattias _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
