Make sure you don't have the 300 skins that come with devexpress included.<div><br></div><div>There is an option in the IDE to disabled them for a project or for all time.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Colin Johnsun <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin.adug@gmail.com" target="_blank">colin.adug@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Delphi XE2 carries over a lot of meta information for use with the<br>
RTTI. This may be the cause of the bloat in size.<br>
<br>
There are compiler options which you can use to switch it off. See the<br>
link below:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://delphi.about.com/b/2011/07/26/create-smaller-delphi-xe-executables-remove-rtti-pack-exe.htm" target="_blank">http://delphi.about.com/b/2011/07/26/create-smaller-delphi-xe-executables-remove-rtti-pack-exe.htm</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Colin<br>
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On 23 August 2012 13:41, Robo <<a href="mailto:robo555@gmail.com">robo555@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If I compile the attached project in Delphi XE2, which only contains a<br>
> blank form, I get a 7MB exe.<br>
><br>
> If I start using DevExpress components, what used to be a 5MB exe in<br>
> Delphi 2005 turns into a 25MB exe in XE2.<br>
><br>
> - What can I do to reduce the size? The blank project would have been<br>
> about 500KB in previous versions of Delphi.<br>
> - How can I keep the file size down when using DevExpress components?<br>
><br>
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