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		DisownedWheat on Aug 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lazarus – A Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE 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.

gardnr on Aug 10, 2017 [–]

Back in the day I used to run the exe through and get them even smaller: https://upx.github.io/

badsectoracula on Aug 10, 2017 | [–]

UPX is misleading though since it needs more memory than the EXE itself.

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