Awesome comments, but before I use the strip technique.
Any chance these two warnings are screwing my compile option settings.
Warning: other sources path of "smtptest" contains "C:\lazarus\lcl", which belongs to package "LCLBase"
Warning: other sources path of package "lnetbase 0.6.6" contains directory "..\lib", which is already in the unit search path.
I remember the compiler settings made a difference before updating to 1.8