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UPX is maybe again capable to compress FPC 3.x.y files (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 29.08.2022, 10:31

Hello! Few years ago I reported to UPX team a bug about unability to pack the Freepascal 3 compiled files for DOS (and also some DJGPP programms)
There was no activity in this topic and the bugreport was nearly closed as "stale" but I have overspoken Reiser to fix it.
He believes that it works now.

But it is in the Devel branch and it has no binary releases. It shouldn't be very difficult to build it from sources but it needs the properly set GNU C environment with GCC at least 6.1.
I have only some half working DJGPP with GCC 3 for experiments with Allegro.

If somebody has a suitable GCC/DJGPP maybe you could brew a test binary for us...

Link to "Devel" tree of UPX: here

Link to related patch fixing the FPC-3 compression: here

Link about this bugreport: here

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Complete thread:

• UPX is maybe again capable to compress FPC 3.x.y files - Laaca, 29.08.2022, 10:31
  • UPX is maybe again capable to compress FPC 3.x.y files - Ringding, 30.08.2022, 11:39
    • UPX is maybe again capable to compress FPC 3.x.y files - Laaca, 30.08.2022, 12:56
      • UPX is maybe again capable to compress FPC 3.x.y files - roytam, 31.08.2022, 01:36