[Lazarus] upx dont work

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 28 10:35:38 CET 2012


Am 28.02.2012 01:31, schrieb Ing. Héctor F. Fiandor Rosario:
> Dear colleagues:
>
> i have used por many years the upx for compact the executable files.
> Really, it have worked pretty well.
>
> today, i have tried to compact an executable but i have obtained a nom
> good result.
>
> previously i have used the strip to reduce the "weight" from more or
> less 30 Mb to 3 Mb. After that, the executable still works well.
>
> them i have applied the upx, it look to work well, the weight is reduced
> to 1 Mb, but when i tried to execute, a message appears telling "the
> configuration is not good and maybe reinstalling the application can
> work". In more than 20 years using it, it is the first time this occurs.

As recently the use of UPX for packing the FPC binaries was removed I'd 
suggest you to not rely on it anymore.

Regards,
Sven

PS: Please don't hijack other threads.




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