How to achieve smaller size of the executable?

Question

Very recently I have come back to Delphi after a long pause and written a rather straightforward utility app my client requested to support an older release...

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Answer 1

• You say you're coming back to Delphi. If you still have an old version available, use that - every new version adds extra features and if you don't need them them your exes will be smaller without them.

• Make sure you're only including units you actually use.

But whatever you do I very much doubt you'll get down to 300k. If memory serves, even a 'hello world' application in Delphi 2 would be larger than that.