[fpc-devel] A Compiled file size solution from the GBD mailing-list

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Peter Vreman wrote:

> At 13:17 16-1-2008, you wrote:
> >Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > >from _EXECUTABLE_ file FILE, iow you still need the unstripped exe.
> >
> >Perhaps it doesn't need the .text, .data, .bss etc sections though.
> 
> I also posted this on Lazarus mailing list already.
> 
> Below are the 2 commands to make it working. In the first command only the
> debug information is kept in lazarus.dbg. And the second is the already know
> way to strip the debug information.
> 
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> 
> And as a final note: Yes, it is possible to fix fpc to write such a .dbg file
> also.

Didn't we receive a patch from the Morfik people which did exactly this ? 
I remember that we had an email-conversation about it, and I also
seem to remember applying a patch ?

Michael.