> On Nov 2, 2024, at 11:53 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Hi! Looking at the 34 MB FPC package, I noticed that: > > - quite a few go32v2 binaries in the sources (?) are not UPXed > - UPX crashes with a failed assertion for some of those > > and also that: > > - the units / libraries come as .o and some type of binary files > - not sure where the actual source texts for the libraries are? > > I suggest to UPX those exes of go32v2 for which UPX works. Make > sure to throw away temp files related to exes for which UPX fails > after attempting to UPX --8086 each exe, though ;-) > > Do we have anything which can compress DXE files, by the way? > > Regards, Eric > > PS: I just forgot to mention that the DOJS binaries are not yet UPXed. > That would shrink them from 2.5 to 1.2 MB on disk :-) >
Since FreeDOS 1.4 is fast approaching, I think this should be put off until after that release. While UPX compressing the binaries “should” have no ill effects, they would need still need tested. I don’t think there is sufficient time to do the proper testing before 1.4 is released. I think we should leave them as-is for now. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
