[fpc-devel] New -Xg option in the last 9778 revision

[Marc Weustink]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
> 
> 
> Op Fri, 18 Jan 2008, schreef Marc Weustink:
> 
>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Peter Vreman wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> I suggested using Lazarus and the OP said he had great doubts 
>>>>>> because the
>>>>>> size of the exe of his test program is 10 times the size of that 
>>>>>> compiled by
>>>>>> Borland.
>>>>> Anyone who writes such texts doesn't look further than his nose.
>>>>> Experience shows they will just hit the next thing which makes Lazarus
>>>>> "unusable". Don't expect such idiots to become Lazarus users.
>>>> That is partly true. The problem is that setting -Xs doesn't help if 
>>>> there is also -g in the
>>>> command line. So people think that the compiler strips the 
>>>> executable, but in fact the binary is
>>>> unstripped.
>>>>
>>>> The easiest way to solve this is with a check in Lazarus. When the 
>>>> strip checkbox is checked a
>>>> note shall be shown and asked to disable the debuginfo to make the 
>>>> option work.
>>>>
>>>> The real solution is what a lot of people already asked for. 
>>>> Multiple build modes like Visual C++
>>>> also has.
>>>
>>> I think this is indeed the best, and should be not so hard to 
>>> implement; At least the check would be already a hint to users.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> We thought about this some years ago. It is not as trivial as it 
>> seems. Initial problem was to present all possible options to the user.
>> The tree based optiondialogs might help with this.
> 
> The FPC IDE has had it for years. All user interface support you need is 
> the Options->Mode menu. For the rest the handling all internal; the IDE 
> uses an array of options, one for each build mode, each with its own 
> defaults.

Yeah... and we want something less static and more configurable, default 
options, release/debug/whatever build, target dependent etc.etc.etc.

Marc