Yeah I have /usr/bin/strip; I thought that the strip was Lazarus / FPC - specific. Guess not. Anyway, running that on my app leaves it at 2.7mb still so I guess that's as small as it's going to get. Thanks for the info
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Grizzly(Francis Smit) <[email protected]>wrote: > Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > > matt shaffer wrote: > > > >> Is there a strip program for Linux? Well I'm using Ubuntu and > >> installed 9.26-4 from the repositories, and having no idea where > >> everything installed to I just did a search of my entire drive for > >> "strip". The only program found was in a non-FPC specific directory > >> and using it had no effect on the size of my app. The app is compiled > >> for GTK2, and is smaller than the default windows binary (11mb vs > >> 2.7mb), but the Windows binary can be stripped to 1.3mb. While size > >> isn't everything, I'm just wondering if ~3mb for a very simplistic, 1 > >> form app seems right on Linux (in regards to Lazarus apps) as I've > >> never dealt with developing apps for it before. > >> > > it should be /usr/bin/strip but you probably haven't got it installed so > > install it first > > > > > u need to install binutils to get strip > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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