Hi Vincent,

2008/1/15, Vincent Snijders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Fabio Dell'Aria schreef:
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > all we know how many new users do not uses lazarus because it create too
> > BIG compiled files.
> >
> > We know that:
> >
> > 1)...the additional options are needed to can debug the project;
> > 2)...just do a simple "strip --strip-all filename" reduce drastically
> > the final size (an empty project go from 12.5Mb to 1.2 Mb).
> >
> > I think to have found a really simple solution to can continue to debug
> > our project with a really little size increasing.
> >
> > Just remove all the debug-info from all the LCL object files to reduce
> > the final compiled file from 12.5Mb to ONLY 2Mb (on Windows).
> >
> > We'll can continue to debug our projects but we'll CANNOT debug the LCL
> > code.
> >
> > To obtain this little miracle just use the following command (from the
> > shell):
>
> >
> >
> > What do you think about? ;)
>
> <irony>
> Maybe not such a bad idea. Maybe we expect too much from our users.
> - That they know point 1) and 2) from above.
> - That they want to know why things go wrong in the LCL and can handle
> stepping
> though it, and prefer that above a list of hexdigits in their back traces.
> </irony>
>
> IOW: I expect Lazarus users to be knowledgeable, Lazarus is not for fools.
>
> Vincent


Yes I understand but why loose so many new users?
All the programmers come from Delphi reports this issue and only a little
subset of them check for a solution on Google.
Others are lost!

But if a solution exists why do not use it?

I do not understand! :(

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Best regards...

Fabio Dell'Aria.

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