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    Hello all,

     

    I would like to re-build Delphi's RTL/VCL without RTTI for a certain project in which the compiled size of the DLL's and executables is important.   I'd be very grateful if someone could supply some insight or maybe a script to accomplish it.   I have no problem doing so using Delphi XE but Delphi Rio is giving me a hard time.

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    On 12/9/2018 at 4:57 PM, David Heffernan said:

    Pointless to ask ShellExecute to create a cmd process to in turn create another process. Create the other process directly. This is the source of all your problems. 

    ... unless you need to use pipes, environment variables or want to capture the output of a command line program into a file. Then cmd.exe is a real life saver for which there is no real alternative as far as I'm aware.

     

    I had precisely that case last week.  In an installation routine (inno Setup) I needed to figure out if a set of Microsoft IIS components was installed correctly before allowing the user to continue the installation of my ISAPI webservice.  The following one-liner gives that information sorted in a text file. 

     

    cmd.exe /s /c dism /online /Get-Features /Format:table /English | sort >%tmp%\dismfeatures.txt

     

     

     

    (Note that on 64-bit systems,  this particular example requires calling the 64-bit version of cmd.exe;  The 32-bit version of cmd.exe will call the 32-bit version of dism.exe which is totally non-functional on 64-bit operating systems. Google "Wow64DisableWow64FsRedirection" for more info). 

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