digitalmars.D - upx exe packer has problems with MyDmdApp.exe output of dmd
- Lynn Allan (10/10) Oct 03 2004 I did a quick test of the upx exe packer on output from the dmd
- Walter (4/14) Oct 03 2004 The linker produces standard Portable Executable EXE files. It's been kn...
- Ilya Minkov (15/18) Oct 03 2004 Yes, there are packers which work, but most don't.
I did a quick test of the upx exe packer on output from the dmd compiler. Their stable version ver 1.25 reported problems, and the --force option resulted in an exe that didn't work. Their beta v1.92 seemed to work ok if the --force option was provided. The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that works with dmd's output? I reported this to the upx developers, but was wondering if dmd does non-standard exe generation. http://upx.sourceforge.net
Oct 03 2004
"Lynn Allan" <l_d_allan adelphia.net> wrote in message news:cjoplf$v72$1 digitaldaemon.com...I did a quick test of the upx exe packer on output from the dmd compiler. Their stable version ver 1.25 reported problems, and the --force option resulted in an exe that didn't work. Their beta v1.92 seemed to work ok if the --force option was provided. The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that works with dmd's output? I reported this to the upx developers, but was wondering if dmd does non-standard exe generation. http://upx.sourceforge.netThe linker produces standard Portable Executable EXE files. It's been known for some time that the upx packer won't work with it, it's a bug in upx.
Oct 03 2004
Lynn Allan schrieb:The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that works with dmd's output?Yes, there are packers which work, but most don't. These packers work, as far as i remember: Petite by Ian Luck (shareware) PE-Compact (commercial/demo) MEW SE 1.1 (freeware, best compression) FSG 2.0 (freeware) The last 2 have been written by some leet eastern european hackers. :> Some anti-viruses can jerk at FSG. If you have trouble finding the links, i can be of help. These packers don't work, as far as i remember: UPX - all known versions, but the newest version might work with --force older versions of MEW and FSG many other packers. -eye
Oct 03 2004