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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
Subject: Re: Delphi XE2 compiled VCL Win32 EXE size
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:03:45 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-03-16, Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> wrote:
>> > more?
>> > > 
>> > > Turn of RTTI generation. The built-in help explains how to do
>> > > that.  The online docwiki page is a copy of the built-in help:
>> > 
>> > Doesn't seem to make a difference for empty form size.
>> 
>> Hmmm... indeed. 
>
> Seems RTTI in the RTL and VCL units will still be compiled in, so you
> might have to recompile the RTL and VCL without RTTI too, to get the
> absolutely minimum size.

Yup, and while at it, you can probably cut down other excess bagage too,
if it matters so much.

It might be a good idea for FPC though, instead of an unit local directive
that just suspends RTTI generation, have a global switch that works at the 
linker level. Requires an internal link though....