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 UPX 2.0 adds ARM executable support, compress SmartPhone and PPC EXEs with UPX 2.0
gpcarreon (MVP)
post May 9 2006, 01:30
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I think this is an interesting topic so let me share the info. I did a quick test and was impressed with the program's compression ratio.

What is UPX?

Ultimate Packer for eXecutables (aka UPX) version 2.0. is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks because of in-place decompression.



Changelog

Relased 27 Apr 2006 is version 2.0:

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* new format: added support for arm/pe (ARM executables running on WinCE)
* new format: added support for linux elf/amd64
* new format: added support for linux elf/ppc32
* new format: added support for mach/ppc32 (Apple Mac OS X)
* new format: added support for bootable Linux kernels ("vmlinuz/386")
* new format: added support for Playstation exes ("ps1/exe")
* slightly better compression using the new NRV2E algorithm
* new options for compression tuning (e.g. '--brute')
* improved win32/pe compatibility
* direct ELF-to-memory decompression
* various bug fixes

Websites

For details, kindly visit: http://upx.sourceforge.net/
The GUI frontend for UPX (Maxiorel GUI4UPX) at: http://www.polzer-sw.com/gui4upx

Attached File  snap726.jpg ( 33.39K ) Number of downloads: 165


Test files I used (for SP):

Attached File  Uncompressed.zip ( 67.23K ) Number of downloads: 218

Attached File  Compressed.zip ( 68.19K ) Number of downloads: 197


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post May 9 2006, 10:12
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cool gpcarreon, nice piece of trick.


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UPXgui 1.0 EN - graphic interface for UPX
http://www.mobilnaut.cz/index.php?inc=art&id=620

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post May 16 2006, 17:25
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Hmmm, would be interesting to repack every file in the phone's ROM, lol!

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somehow this news article had slipped me by

this is great news - been waiting for a CE compatable version for ages biggrin.gif
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