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Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX
> 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.
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