Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Thanks, but until I get a running setup.exe I can't get a running > Cygwin and only then I can get a running apt-cyg, right? You only need a UPX executable, you can get it from upstream: https://github.com/upx/upx/releases And (somewhat uncharacteristically) they actually

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-22 Thread Michael Wild
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:54 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > > But how do I bootstrap? Can I just use the download from upx.github.io? > > That'll be > > what I try next then. > > apt-cyg install upx && man upx # ;^> Thanks, but until I get a running setup.exe I can't get a running Cygwin and only then

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-22 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-01-21 14:12, Michael Wild wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 20:55 Achim Gratz wrote: >> Michael Wild writes: >>> Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX >>> compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my >>> custom compiled versions. >> No, t

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Wild
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 20:55 Achim Gratz wrote: > Michael Wild writes: > > Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX > > compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my > custom > > compiled versions. > > No, that's just so the download is smaller. Whic

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Thanks. I have very little hope of getting it whitelisted... Is UPX > compression really a necessity? Otherwise I'll have to resort to my custom > compiled versions. No, that's just so the download is smaller. Which isn't the point if you've built it yourself anyway… you co

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Wild
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 18:19 Achim Gratz wrote: > Michael Wild writes: > > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing > > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction > > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd > > expect ot

Re: UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Achim Gratz
Michael Wild writes: > Anybody else experiencing this? I tried trawling through the mailing > list, but nothing specific turned up. Maybe this is an interaction > with the BLODA imposed on me by our company IT policy. But then I'd > expect others to have seen this issue too. It wouldn't be the fir

UPX compressed setup-x86_64.exe crashes on Win10

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Wild
Dear all I recently got a new laptop at work with Win10 (1709). I went ahead, downloaded setup-x86_64.exe and wanted to install Cygwin. However, it crashes with a segmentation fault. Trying to get to the bottom of things I got the sources on my old laptop and compiled the thing, copied it to the n