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Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
- From: Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail dot com>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:12:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
- References: <CAALQ5rnmuEtm6208hQd2qo9FKWmdT=N7RFEg5QqqaZeCgoG3vQ@mail.gmail.com> <87y37eudwo.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <CAALQ5rkWjLJTkJbGrPtz3dB1k_B1HSTPLfBDOR62Y2tG8PjQVw@mail.gmail.com> <87h8e1vl97.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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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