On 2016-04-11 02:10, Alan Corey wrote: > It was 20 megs until I turned optimization on and debugging off, then > it went down to a little over 4.
LCL pulls in a lot of baggage. With other toolkits, and based on your application, that can be reduced to a third of that size, yet still have all the same functionality. ;-) > that when I rebuild the IDE it doesn't write the new version to > /root/.lazarus/lazarus, it stays in /usr/local/bin. I'll figure it As Sven said, never run Lazarus (or anything really) as root. I've suggested this many times before... Install FPC from the official FPC installed available on SourceForge. Install it to your home directory (eg: /home/alan/devel/fpc-3.0.0/). Then use Git or SVN to get the Lazarus source code (eg: /home/alan/devel/lazarus/). The do a 'make bigide' and you are done! No issues with write access or other permissions, no scattered files all over your system etc. This method has worked for me for years under Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. > New questions: Can I use my Deplhi 3 help files? These are old-style > .hlp files, not .chm. I'm sure you can, but then you need to have a Linux or FreeBSD .hlp help viewer. WINE includes such a viewer, but not everybody wants to install WINE. Also take a look at DocView and INF help. It will take you 2 minutes to set up, and it doesn't matter which version of Lazarus you use. Also no rebuilding of Lazarus is required. DocView is set up using the External Tools functionality of Lazarus IDE. On a side note: Regarding your screenshots of a conversion tool. Take a look at Unimesur, created by Jean-Marc - a fpGUI contributor. It has conversions for anything you can think of, is translated to French and English, includes built-in help and can even print results or conversion tables to PDF. All in a 800KB download. http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/community.shtml Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
