I have created a simple project in Delphi XE2 with only 3 or 4 delphi forms which are only 8 or 9 KB in size. But If I see the exe size, its 12MB. I don’t know how? What could be the reasons?
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I have created a simple project in Delphi XE2 with only 3 or 4 delphi forms which are only 8 or 9 KB in size. But If I see the exe size, its 12MB. I don’t know how? What could be the reasons?
You’re using the default Debug build configuration, which includes debug information in the exe.
You normally change the build configuration to release in order to produce a smaller exe for distribution, at the expense to lose the ability to debug it within the Delphi IDE (step by step).
Take a look at How to change Delphi Build configuration?
Using Delphi XE 3 with a simple form, the Debug exe is 10,995Kb whereas the Release exe is only 2,326Kb long. You may argue the latter is still big, but that’s another question: