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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:26:49 +0100 (CET)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
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Subject: Re: compiling setup.exe (was Re: Distributing .ISO files.)
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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'.
> -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
> 
> 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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