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Hi the Delphi Praxis community, I'm happy to announce to you that since now the SVGMagic component library is open-source and free for commercial and non-commercial use, under the MIT license. Please find the source code here: https://github.com/Jeanmilost/SVGMagic And the website was migrated here: https://jeanmilost.github.io/svgmagic.web/

Never do this. It's pointless, defeats stuff the OS does to make accessing data in the file efficient, triggers more false-positives, and provides no real benefits, unless you are dealing with a severe lack of storage on the deployment target, which should be fixed in other ways. You can zip the file for transmission bandwidth savings.

That is most likely because you only use a small part of these packages. When building a monolithic exe the compiler will only take the parts actually used, but the packages contain a lot more.

It seems you don't read carefully still missing cbAppDataFmx Well I do not presume to be the debugger OK it seems you added the file later But now you use newer Delphi and mine is 10.2.3 so good luck. There are out there even Delphi 5 Stop guys using NEW (above 10) as not everybody has the luxury of buying every year a new Delphi. P.S I have been with Delphi since #1

I'd strongly advise against UPX especially in production executables. I had my fair share of after-the-last-moment struggle because of it

I have made an application that copies the Delphi RTL/VCL source files into a temporary folder, inserts the text '{$RTTI EXPLICIT METHODS([]) PROPERTIES([]) FIELDS([])}' in the right places and re-builds the whole lot. The compiled *.dcu files contain a lot less RTTI than before. By linking against this compacted RTL I achieve a size reduction in a 64-bit VCL application from 14 MB to 10.3 MB using Delphi 12. For just a single executable that isn't worthwhile, but I use this in some multi-module projects that consist of a few dozen ActiveX EXE's and DLL'S. There the cumulative size reduction is substantial. Proper testing is hugely important, one has to be sure that the missing RTTI doesn't cause the program to malfunction.

Because the VCL depends on the RTL. If you use the Runtime Package for the VCL then you need the Runtime Package of the RTL as well.

I'll never understand people like you. Every project except CScript has a Requirements section where he mentions that Delphi 12.2+ is supported, or at least that it is made and tested with Delphi 12.2. You really should RTFM more often.