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Re: Euphoria to C problem

• Posted by mtsreborn at yahoo.com Feb 26, 2001
• 391 views

UPX sucks.
Use PKLite instead.
It even compresses DLLs.

Mike The Spike

--- Fabio Ramirez <faramire at nemo.univalle.edu.co>
wrote:
> Hola, Tony Steward escribió 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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