I suspect the size of the .exe is the problem here. We have an
application of 19MB .exe and it works fine on all versions of Windows
including XP, 2000, Me, and 98.
Probably this application is doing something on startup that win 98
Memory management is unable to handle... did you try to run your application
from inside the Delphi IDE to be able to debug and see if it's before the
application.initialize that the exception is being raised or while creating
some modules or doing a certain task...
Regards
Vahan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
Of Peter Luijer
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:47 PM
Hi,
Looking at some of the filesizes in excess of 14MB is
indeed a very disturbing thought...
Also I find it very strange that an application has
multiple executables; you're doing something wrong here.
Apart from that, I find it very hard to believe you're
having successful results by UPX'ing your executables.
UPX is only a utility to shrink your final exe-size, it
does NOT decrease your codebase-size, in fact it adds a
little amount of needed RAM to execute the file.
The UPX utility compares somewhat to a "stubbed" (self-
extracting) ZIP-file and it could (potentially) slow down
the startup-speed of your exe by a few milliseconds or
even seconds, depending on codesize and processorspeed.
Just my two cents,
Peter.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of David Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:24 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [delphi-en] exe does not work on win98
>
>
> 14MB executable size is absurd for one app! These
> things are part of ONE app? Try using packages or
> dll's.
> --- grndeveloper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have one aplicaction with several exes, some of
> > them greater than 14Mb.
% SNIP %
> > One possible solution is compressing the file with
> > upx. This has
> > solved the problem in some cases.
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