UPX 2.0 adds ARM executable support

[Guest gpcarreon (MVP)]

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:

* 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

Test files I used (for SP):

Uncompressed.zip

Compressed.zip

[Guest hunyango_uk]

cool gpcarreon, nice piece of trick.

[Guest ospen]

UPXgui 1.0 EN - graphic interface for UPX

http://www.mobilnaut.cz/index.php?inc=art&id=620

Edited May 17, 2006 by ospen

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Hmmm, would be interesting to repack every file in the phone's ROM, lol!

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[Guest muff]

somehow this news article had slipped me by

this is great news - been waiting for a CE compatable version for ages ;)