Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/04/05:17:29
Ehm.. do you really think we're interested in the output of upx --help
here? I mean: "UPX - Ultimate Packer for eXecutables; see
<http://upx.sourceforge.net/> for details" would have been more than
enough, don't you think?
rlc
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Upx.
>
> <http://upx.sourceforge.net/>
>
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> % 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".
> >
> >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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