UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Jan 22 16:53:00 GMT 2019


On 2019-01-21 14:12, Michael Wild wrote:
> 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.

apt-cyg install upx && man upx # ;^>

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