OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria to C problem

• Posted by Fabio Ramirez <faramire at nemo.univalle.edu.co> Feb 26, 2001
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Hola, Tony Steward escribi=F3 el 26/02/2001 04:03:36 a.m.:

>Hi Fabio,
>Tell me more about upx compression.
>Where to get it etc.

Hi Tony, 

UPX is a packer for executables, you use on an exe file and get one smaller 
exe aboout 30% of the original size, depends on your choices. It doesn't 
have a perceivable impact on start time, better than that if the file has 
to be transferred by a network it should start faster. It's free for 
personal or commercial use and the only bad thing I read about it was 
something about that it doesn't let your programs benefit from some caching 
when they are compressed, I don't remember exactly but it doesen't seem 
important to me.

I first heard about it when Euphoria 2.2 was released and the size of EXW 
and the final bound program decreased considerably.

You can get it at 

http://upx.tsx.org
 

I did some minor modifications to use a generic bat when compiling and also 
compress the resulting exe.

@echo compiling with BORLAND
@cd %1
@bcc32 -tW -q -w- -O2 -5 -a4 -IC:\BORLAND\BCC55\include 
-LC:\BORLAND\BCC55\lib %2.c @objfiles.lnk
@del *.tds > NUL
@del *.obj > NUL
@del *.c > NUL
@upx %2.exe
@if not exist %2.exe goto done
@echo *************************
@echo Ready ...
@echo *************************
:done


>
>Thanks
>Tony

Fabio

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Fabio Ramirez R.
Administrador de Redes - CSI
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