Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-apps-owner AT cygwin DOT com List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3C91ED8C.45B068E0@lapo.it> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:48:13 +0100 From: Lapo Luchini X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: it,en,fr,es,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mailing List: CygWin-Apps Subject: Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Uhmm, UPX should be part of the distribution first, as a maintained > pacakge, before folk start packing distributed binaries with it. Do we > have a volunteer to maintain UPX? 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. -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo AT lapo DOT it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)