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

posted by roytam, 31.08.2022, 01:36

> > > If somebody has a suitable GCC/DJGPP maybe you could brew a test
> binary
> > for
> > > us...
> >
> > You don’t need a DJGPP build in order to compress a DJGPP executable,
> or
> > do you? Building and running on Linux would be a lot easier.
>
> Right. I found that it is even possible to download some automatic builds
> for linux and for windows. So I tried a build for Win32 (unfortunately does
> not run under windows 98).
> The results are not good. The DJGPP binary can be packed but then does not
> work anymore. However after decompression id works again.

you may try this gcc build to build upx under win98: https://github.com/fsb4000/gcc-for-Windows98/releases/tag/gcc11.1.0

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