But the files are enormous.

Which files are enormous?

This brings up another question. Would it be interesting to release a stripped lazarus installer? I mean only the FPC compiler and the rest all sources? You just simply install and invoke make clean all. Voila, you have an installer that will be about 30% smaller.

Yes, that would make sense. That is what I meant with source based installer on http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User:Vincent/todo_list

You can even ask whether to include debug info for RTL, FCL, LCL or not.

Same applies for some of the tools, docs, tests, debian (did I forget any) dirs.

You can give the user an option to create cross compilers, at least to targets without need for internal linkers.

Exactly my idea

I welcome patches and extensions in this direction.

Shure I'm willing to help. I could make a new source installer to start with (win32_src). We can add functionalty as we go. It's not only this installer, but the binary installers could also be made a little bit leaner. Like mentioned above there is stuff included that is never used by users but only devels use. Do we want to keep including that?

Darius

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