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Re: Setup version in setup.ini


On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> >> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:50:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>>> Shouldn't setup.ini be updated to reflect the new setup version
> >>>> available?
> >>>> See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00813.html>.
> >>>
> >>> It's supposed to be automatic.  Apparently someone removed the version
> >>> marker strings in setup.exe that upset relies on for decoding the
> >>> version.  I think this happens in nearly every setup release.
> >>
> >> I suspect the markers are intact, but masked by the upx compression.
> >> Max.
> >
> > This is puzzling.  There is an option in upx that disables compression for
> > resources ("--compress-resouces=0").  Using it does add about 11k to the
> > size of the executable.  However, even with that option, "strings
> > setup.exe" doesn't show any of the resources...  Am I understanding the
> > intent of the option correctly?  If not, what am I missing?
>
> The resources are stored in Unicode. Try strings -el.

Yep, got it.  Thanks.

> But the version marker isn't a resource anyway.
> Max.

Should it be?  I don't know much about resources, but can we have two .rc
files, one containing only the version (i.e., instead of setup_version.c
generate a setup_version.rc)?  Alternatively, I know the Windows EXE
header has a slot for an application-defined version...  If upx keeps that
intact, we could look into that approach.
	Igor
P.S. How did it work before?  upx has been used for a while now, hasn't it?
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