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Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
Hallo Christopher,
Am 2002-03-15 um 17:52 schriebst du:
>>UPX is quite cross-platform: you can use win32 version to package lonux
>>a.out such as linux verison to package win32 PE.
>>Moreover an UPX-compressed EXE is completely self-sufficient from UPX
>>itself, has no memory overhead and decompresses very very fast (10Mb/sec
>>on the author's Pentium133 as upx.sourceforge.net says).
>>But if a cygwin native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to
>>package it.
[...]
> It sounds from your description like I'll be able to run this on linux,
> where I make all of my packages. Is that right? That's the only way
> this will be useful for me.
It is very much faster on Linux;)
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Anyone counted the votes?
3 pro / 3 undecided / 1 contra?
Gerrit
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