Re: [Harbour] mingw 4.5.0 and upx

2010-05-18 Thread Viktor Szakáts
> fwiw, I have found UPX to be a piece of crap for most applications. Their > site shows that the idea was conceived and implemented during the days of > Pentium I computers, as all their CPU tests show that sort of historical > period. > > You'd think that would be a good thing, but at the t

Re: [Harbour] mingw 4.5.0 and upx

2010-05-18 Thread smu johnson
fwiw, I have found UPX to be a piece of crap for most applications. Their site shows that the idea was conceived and implemented during the days of Pentium I computers, as all their CPU tests show that sort of historical period. You'd think that would be a good thing, but at the time 16 MB of ra

[Harbour] mingw 4.5.0 and upx

2010-05-18 Thread Viktor Szakáts
Hi All, FYI upx (even latest) won't work with mingw 4.5.0 built executables, due to 'CantPackException: TLS callbacks are not supported' error. In summary mingw added support for TLS callbacks in startup code, they also refused to make it optional, upx chokes on this and upx developer is not