>> This issue is real. After you know what to do it's simple, but why not
>> make things simpler for newbies? It would be nice to have an option to
>> automatically run "strip" after the project is compiled AND have it
>> enabled by default. It's fast; the "strip" will barely be noticed.
>> Many developers, when looking for IDEs, simply dismiss Lazarus because
>> of the executable size alone.
>
> This is a bad idea, because if you run stip by default, then you cannot
> debug your application: the debug info is also removed.
>
> You should only strip in the end, when the application is ready to
> be deployed.
The strip is normally already executed by the linker if no debug info is
requested. But it fails to strip some parts because the .o file generated
by fpc contains wrong flags for the .stab section. This is already fixed
in current svn of 2.0.x and 2.1.1.
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