I did a quick test of the upx exe packer on output from the dmd compiler. Their stable version ver 1.25 reported problems, and the --force option resulted in an exe that didn't work. Their beta v1.92 seemed to work ok if the --force option was provided.

The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that works with dmd's output?

I reported this to the upx developers, but was wondering if dmd does non-standard exe generation.

http://upx.sourceforge.net

"Lynn Allan" <l_d_allan@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:cjoplf$v72$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> I did a quick test of the upx exe packer on output from the dmd compiler. Their stable version ver 1.25 reported problems, and the --force option resulted in an exe that didn't work. Their beta v1.92 seemed to work ok if the --force option was provided.
>
> The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that works with dmd's output?
>
> I reported this to the upx developers, but was wondering if dmd does non-standard exe generation.
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> http://upx.sourceforge.net

The linker produces standard Portable Executable EXE files. It's been known for some time that the upx packer won't work with it, it's a bug in upx.

Lynn Allan schrieb:

> The freeware app I'm considering developing with D might benefit from
> an exe packer. Does anyone have experience with an exe packer that
> works with dmd's output?

Yes, there are packers which work, but most don't.

These packers work, as far as i remember:

Petite by Ian Luck (shareware)
PE-Compact (commercial/demo)
MEW SE 1.1 (freeware, best compression)
FSG 2.0 (freeware)

The last 2 have been written by some leet eastern european hackers. :> Some anti-viruses can jerk at FSG.

If you have trouble finding the links, i can be of help.

These packers don't work, as far as i remember:

UPX - all known versions, but the newest version might work with --force
older versions of MEW and FSG
many other packers.

-eye