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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by adrianlmm on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:18PM (#14975767)
I've created small projects in Lazarus and you are right in all points except in the small binary part, also I would add that it comes with db drivers for Postgrees, MySQL and Firebird SQL out of the box.
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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by samuell on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:24AM (#14978246)
If you compare to the "modern" way of building cross-platform apps: Electron ... with its 100s of MBs, I'm definitely regarding Lazarus binaries as small :)
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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by HelloNurse on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:11PM (#14981824)
Electron is degenerate, not "modern". XUL was modern.
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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by DisownedWheat on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:47PM (#14975899)
Depends on what you define as small but if you remove the GDB debugging information you can trim down your binaries by a huge amount. My last project was 3.4MB.
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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by gardnr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:34AM (#14976739)
Back in the day I used to run the exe through and get them even smaller: https://upx.github.io/
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Re:Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE by badsectoracula on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:41AM (#14978669)
UPX is misleading though since it needs more memory than the EXE itself.
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