Trouble with running cygwin dll on Vortex86MX+ CPU

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 4/7/2014 9:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:28:29PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

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>>> 2) Packaging changes of setup.exe have made extracting the version string
>>>      impossible, save for actually running setup, which isn't something I'm
>>>      going to do on a daily basis.  If there is a method of extracting this
>>>      info from it, please do tell me how.
>>
>> I'm assuming it used to just be in the RC file in the past.  Didn't look
>> in the history to trace it back.  But now it is generated and put in
>> setup_version.c as a global constant setup_version.
>
> setup.exe is packed with upx.  If you want to see the version string I
> suppose you could unpack it with upx.

Of course!  Why didn't I think of that?

strings setup*.exe | grep setup-version

This returns the version for a _decompressed_ setup executable.

-- 
Larry

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