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Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10


On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 20:55 Achim Gratz wrote:

> Michael Wild writes:
> > Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX
> > compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my
> custom
> > compiled versions.
>
> No, that's just so the download is smaller.  Which isn't the point if
> you've built it yourself anyway… you could decompress it if you really
> don't trust your own version or want to skip building it.
>

Interesting. Somehow I assumed that this was a one-way process. But how do
I bootstrap? Can I just use the download from upx.github.io? That'll be
what I try next then.

Michael

>

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