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Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:53:40 -0700
- Subject: Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10
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- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
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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