[DUG] How to reduce size of Delphi XE2/DevExpress compiled exe?

[Robo]

Thanks, the Release build is 1.5MB compared to Debug's 6MB.

Still a lot larger than previous versions, but much more reasonable.
Still open to any other suggestions we could try.

Switching off RTTI only reduced by a few KB.

Robo

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Robert Martin <rob at chreos.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Im not using XE2 yet but have set the build configuration to 'Release'
> (i.e. turned off including all the debugging information) ?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
> On 23/08/2012 3:41 p.m., Robo wrote:
>
> If I compile the attached project in Delphi XE2, which only contains a
> blank form, I get a 7MB exe.
>
> If I start using DevExpress components, what used to be a 5MB exe in
> Delphi 2005 turns into a 25MB exe in XE2.
>
> - What can I do to reduce the size? The blank project would have been
> about 500KB in previous versions of Delphi.
> - How can I keep the file size down when using DevExpress components?
>
>
>
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