Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/03/20:20:24
Robert,
Upx.
<http://upx.sourceforge.net/>
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% upx --help
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
UPX 1.24w Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar Nov 7th 2002
Usage: upx [-123456789dlthVL] [-qvfk] [-o file] file..
Commands:
-1 compress faster -9 compress better
--best compress best (can be very slow for big files)
-d decompress -l list compressed file
-t test compressed file -V display version number
-h give this help -L display software license
Options:
-q be quiet -v be verbose
-oFILE write output to `FILE'
-f force compression of suspicious files
--no-color, --mono, --color, --no-progress change look
Backup options:
-k, --backup keep backup files
--no-backup no backup files [default]
Overlay options:
--overlay=copy copy any extra data attached to the file [default]
--overlay=strip strip any extra data attached to the file [dangerous]
--overlay=skip don't compress a file with an overlay
Options for dos/exe:
--8086 make compressed exe work on any 8086
--no-reloc put no relocations in to the exe header
Options for dos/com:
--8086 make compressed com work on any 8086
Options for dos/sys:
--8086 make compressed sys work on any 8086
Options for djgpp2/coff:
--coff produce COFF output [default: EXE]
Options for watcom/le:
--le produce LE output [default: EXE]
Options for win32/pe & rtm32/pe:
--compress-exports=0 do not compress the export section
--compress-exports=1 compress the export section [default]
--compress-icons=0 do not compress any icons
--compress-icons=1 compress all but the first icon
--compress-icons=2 compress all but the first icon directory [default]
--compress-resources=0 do not compress any resources at all
--strip-relocs=0 do not strip relocations
--strip-relocs=1 strip relocations [default]
file.. executables to (de)compress
This version supports: dos/exe, dos/com, dos/sys, djgpp2/coff, watcom/le,
win32/pe, rtm32/pe, tmt/adam, atari/tos, linux/386
UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `upx -L'.
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Randall Schulz
At 17:01 2003-03-03, Robert Citek wrote:
>At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc.
>>> For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it. Instead of a
>>> ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB. It seems to work, but obviously, I did
>>> something wrong. Or is being off by 2 orders of magnitude "close enough?"
>>
>>"man strip".
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>Will do.
>
>>FYI, the stripped mingw-compiled setup.exe is just over 700k.
>
>Hmmm. The one I downloaded from the web to do the Cygwin install was only
>about 170k. How do I create that one?
>
>Regards,
>- Robert
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