Re: Setup not working

2023-02-28 Thread Backwoods BC via Cygwin
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:10 PM Backwoods BC wrote: > I suspect that even using a less than optimum ZIP process will still > be size-competitive with the self-extracting version because of not > having to include the overhead of the self-extractor. I had a little too much faith in ZIP, but 7zip i

Re: Setup not working

2023-02-28 Thread Backwoods BC via Cygwin
On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:16 PM Brian Cowan via Cygwin wrote: > > There is a set of messages from last year or the year before talking about > how the Cygwin setup program is compressed with "upx." When I had this issue, > I had to download UPX on a Linuux host, copy the setup program to that ho

RE: Setup not working

2023-02-28 Thread Brian Cowan via Cygwin
There is a set of messages from last year or the year before talking about how the Cygwin setup program is compressed with "upx." When I had this issue, I had to download UPX on a Linuux host, copy the setup program to that host, and use upx to uncompress the executable. Why? Because my corporat