Try
   strip --strip-all YourSimpleProjectExe

This will remove debug information from your executable and it should shrink to approx. 1/3 of its original size. I assume it will still be much larger than a comparable delphi project but we'll have to go into that later.

bye
Stefan

Hi,
Perhaps it's a very stupid newbie question, but still I haven't found it in FAQs so i'll ask.
I've just downloaded lazarus binaries and fpc and tried to compile some minimal (1 button) project. But, compile fails with a message about FORMS unit not found. I've downloaded lazarus sources as well, but i have a feeling that souces should not be necessary for compile as 'Compiler options -> other unit files' referes to lcl/units directory which already contains compiled units. So, it looks like fpc somewhy refuses to see them. (The same thing happens when starting fpc directly with all those dirs mentioned in -Fu) Any hints appreciated.

Hi,
Yes, 'make' fixed the problem. Thanks a lot.
BTW. I looked at the executable file size for a simplest project and was surprised how large it is, compared to that produced by Delphi. Almost 10 times or so. Not that I'm going to criticize this, but just curious, is it a real necessity or it could be optimized in future?

There is probably a conflict between your fpc version and the fpc version used for building the binary. Plz download the lazarus sources (cvs or snapshot) and compile them manually:

bash
export
cvs login

the password is 'cvs'

cvs -z3 checkout lazarus
make clean all

Mattias