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Subject: Re: upx vs stubify
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:22:11 GMT
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why would you want to invoke UPX automatically?  from my experience, it 
is much better to leave the program with all the debug info on, and then 
for a release simply run UPX on it and then package it.  this way if the 
program crashes while I am testing it, I can symify it...

i don't know, my coding doesn't get to be too sophistimicated so there 
probably is a reason...

JT Williams wrote:

> Can makefiles be (easily) told to use upx instead of the stock djgpp
> stubify when converting the coff image to an exe?  If not, it seems that
> the stubification will have to be an explicit command in the makefile
> (e.g., using $(stubify)=stubify or $(stubify)=upx as desired), which I
> hoped to avoid.
> 
> From the notes for upx 1.20:
> 
>     First of all, it is recommended to use UPX *instead* of strip. strip has
>     the very bad habit of replacing your stub with its own (outdated)
>     version. Additionally UPX corrects a bug/feature in strip v2.8.x: it
>     will fix the 4 KByte aligment of the stub.
> 
>     UPX includes the full functionality of stubify. This means it will
>     automatically stubify your COFF files.
> 
> 


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