Quote Originally Posted by Lightning
The big app issue was due to a small bug in the IDE.
If you strill get big apps after stripping, do the folowing:
open a console
make sure your path system variable includes FPC bin dir in Control Panel->System->[Advanced] [System Variables]
or type in the console "SET PATH=C:\lazarus\pp\bin\win32\;%PATH%"
then
Code:
strip --strip-all yourapp
upx --best yourapp
This will make your apps much smaller.
Could this not be made into a toggle checkbox in the Linker/Compiler options for Lazarus? Or is that basically what it's trying to do in the first place?

The need for a seperate console window was one of the major things that pushed me away from it. I'll have to have a look at the newer version. However anothing thing that bothered me was the fact that I could only install it to a location that had no spaces in the path. wth? :? I guess I could deal with that, but I seriously doubt that there can be a big enough reason that I can't put it in my 'Program Files' folder like all my other apps.

How effective are design suggestions at Lazarus' project site?