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Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>, CygWin-Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:14:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFP: UPX (Was Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX)
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA760014BC8@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au><3C91F6F4.DEE68FD2@yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase @ cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Earnie,
Am 2002-03-15 um 14:28 schriebst du:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Lapo Luchini [mailto:lapo@lapo.it]
>> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:48 PM
>>
>> > But if a cygwin
>> > native version is needed nonetheless I could volunteer to package it.
>>
>> IMO we should have a fully self-hosted distribution. At the moment, with
>> the _single_ exception of postgresql, every package here can be rebuilt
>> from source, to a version equivalent to what the package maintainer
>> posted, on a cygwin system, with the tools that the distribution has. So
>> yes, UPX should be a package before it's used to make packages.
>>
>> I vote for including UPX... and Lapo makes two. Do we need a third? And
>> are there any objections?
>>
> Does UPX come with an API library that you can just use in setup?
UCL is the library which is needed to build UPX.
UCL: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/
UPX: http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Gerrit
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