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UPXable files?

ok, i'm wanting to make an app for PortableApps Developers to upx any given folder with the click of a button or two. what i need is a complete list of all file types that can be upx'd. i know i can just do *.* but when you have something that has a ton of small files it takes a while. the upx website doesn't list everything, and all i know of at the moment are .exe, .dll, .pyd, .irc, .dcp, .com, .sys, .pe. please either post a link to a complete list or post other file types you know are upxable, thanks.

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Sounds like a good idea.

Sounds like a good idea. What language are you writing the app in? and sorry, i dont know about other filetypes that UPX supports.

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well, i wasn't sure what language yet. i'm not an experienced programmer or anything so i was gonna stick with something i was comfortable with, like autoit. i guess if someone else wanted to take this over who is a better programmer than me that'd be okay too. i just know that an app like this would benefit all of the developers.

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I've been playing around

I've been playing around with wxWidgets lately, so I may give it a go. Go ahead and do your version though, it'll be good to have a tool out to handle it properly.

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Cool

If this helps, here's a batch file designed to be run from a Source directory and upx anything in the corresponding App directory, testing each file to make sure it is valid and reverting it if it's not. At least it will give you the steps to adapt to another language.

:: This script will compress all exe and dll files in the App directory and subdirectories to save space.
:: Files that don't compress correctly are automatically reverted.
@ECHO OFF
:: UPX is available at http://upx.sourceforge.net
SET UPXBIN=..\..\..\UPX\upx.exe

ECHO Compressing exe and dll files...
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('DIR /B /S ..\..\App\*.exe ..\..\App\*.dll') DO (
    %UPXBIN% "%%G" --best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2e --crp-ms=999999 -k
	SET VAR=%%G
	%UPXBIN% "%%G" -t
	IF !ERRORLEVEL! NEQ 0 (MOVE /Y !VAR:~0,-1!^~ %%G) ELSE (DEL /Q !VAR:~0,-1!^~)
)
ECHO Compression complete.

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*.8bf *.acm *.asi *.ax *.bpl

*.8ba *.8bf *.acm *.asi *.ax *.bpl *.cnv *.cpl *.del *.dfp *.dil *.dli *.drv *.fae *.icd *.m3d *.mmh *.ocx *.pfl *.qts *.qtx *.scr *.sfx *.thp *.vdf *.vwp *.vxd *.wbx *.wcx *.wdx *.wfx *.wll *.wlx

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you're awesome! is that a list of all of them or just a bunch more of the ones that you know of?

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There is no full list..and

There is no full list..and will never be. There are just too many niche programs that use renamed dlls.

One more:
*.bin

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As stated, you'll never be

As stated, you'll never be able to cover all the file extensions for all the programs out there. An idea would be to run all files thru UPX. It will only compress executables anyways and will just error on a gif or jpg for example (not exactly an efficient method I know... Wink )

To illustrate my very first point, mIRC uses .irc files that are renamed .dlls or .exes.

Also you should know John has already partially coded the app you have in mind in NSIS, he just hasn't released it to anyone yet since it's half-baked. I offered to help him finish it, but my email was either ignored, he doesn' want my help, or more probably it was lost in the other bagillion emails he gets.

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You can't just UPX *.*. I started doing that, but it will mess up some files. Case in point: the current OpenOffice.org Portable which has corrupted .py files. UPX mistakenly compressed them even though they are text files.

The email is in the pile. I'll post what I have and you can see about adding PNG compression (which is what I think you'd mentioned a while back).

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Could you post a sample of

Could you post a sample of such text file?

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Good idea

Id love to have UPX portable

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http://upx.sourceforge.net/do

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I mean an official UPX portable

I dont mean the regular UPX.

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It is portable. What else do

It is portable. What else do you want?

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Well...

The first post/topic starter clearly says

ok, i'm wanting to make an app for PortableApps Developers to upx any given folder with the click of a button or two.

Thats what I want

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Today

I'll post it today in its current form and let others mess with it.

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