Why does a GTK2 simple hello world gui with one button and one label take 2.9mb size?
Same thing with Codeblocks wxwidgets gui takes 100k.
Thanks
A simple hello world program cannot show the power of the programming tool.
Long time ago, I wrote a simple stock control program for my friend who running a small shop. It was my first and 'real' program written using Lazarus. The program has basic stock control features: stock in/out/reject, basic reporting and printing features without any accounting calculations. The program only consists of 1 single binary, no dll and the file size is only
4,3 MB. On its first run it will automatically generate some dbf files. No installation headache, simple copy to your computer and run it. Backup is extremely easy, copy/paste the folder to your flashdrive.
After that, then I was sure that Lazarus is worth for my time.
Before I use Lazarus, I had a non-licensed copy of Delphi 7. I checked the price, it was something around $3000. I can't afford it for my hobby projects and I respected their license term. Luckily there was Lazarus. The early versions of Lazarus were buggy, but not now. Thank you Lazarus' team for making it so awesome.