-=> Shawn Highfield wrote to All <=-

 SH> One line of code in pascal becomes a 35 line procedure.  Why is this
 SH> better then console?

You need to turn on optimization, "release" mode, and stripping debugging
symbols.  FP. by default, compiled is debug mode and adds a lot of extra
crap.

 SH> Plus the lazarus one doesn't work right yet.  Just amazing to me the
 SH> pure bloat in modern GUI programming languages.

You can trim the fat but it's all in the compiler settings.  I use FPC
direct from the command line.

Here what I use in a bash script to compile a regular program (last line is
wrapped):

#!/bin/sh
export HOME=/opt/mbse/code
fpc -B -Fo$HOME/out/object -FU$HOME/out/ppu -FE$HOME/out
-Fu/usr/lib64/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-linux -Fu$HOME/source/ -So -O2 -Tlinux
-Xs -XX -v0 -k"-z noexecstack" $HOME/source/$1.pas

I don't use Lazarus yet though I have been thinking about writing a GUI
version of NODECONV.

-- Sean

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