alternatives to upx dont seem to work so well

[lionfaggot 2]

i can compile with upx, but then people using my software complain about antivirus. so i compile without upx and its a huge size, though not detected anymore.

i tried various alternative exe compressors but they either cost money, or dont work. is there a free exe compressor that works with autoit other than upx?

[Melba23 2,858]

lionfaggot,

Mobius did some work on which packers work (or not) with AutoIt here - you might find it useful.

M23

[guinness 1,478]

There are others e.g. MPRESS (but you can't distribute your application if compressed with MPRESS, only for personal use.) I would just inform the Antivirus companies that your software isn't malicious. Also I don't understand why having a program that is 750KB is considered big these days when we now have drives in the Tera-bytes.

[Ascend4nt 122]

There are others e.g. MPRESS (but you can't distribute your application if compressed with MPRESS, only for personal use.)

I think what you are referring to is redistribution of the MPRESS program, not programs that were compressed with it. That's how the license reads to me anyway.

[guinness 1,478]

I knew about the redistribution, but I found out about the from somewhere else. I think it was only GPL'd applications and MPRESS if I remember rightly!

Edited February 11, 2011 by guinness

[Mobius 86]

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Edited March 2, 2011 by Mobius

[autoitter 2]

Hi all,

As guinness stated, the size of an uncompressed AutoIt program is nothing compared to the size of hard disk drives we're using these days.

Also, a compressed program doesn't use less memory when executed. The only gain you have, is used space on the drive.

Of course, when distributing programs the size does mather. But I would suggest using an installer like NSIS which compresses your (uncompressed) AutoIt program and adds only about 35 kBytes of overhead.

Edit: typo

Edited February 12, 2011 by autoitter

[Tvern 6]

If size is an issue because of frequent updates you could use an exe that updates and runs a a3x file. the exe would only have to be downloaded once and the a3x files are very small in size, especially when you use obfuscator with the /so flag.

[guinness 1,478]

It doesn't say in the MPRESS License but I do remember reading somewhere that if the License of 'your' application is GPL'd then 'you' can't redistribute the application that is compressed with MPRESS. I think the owner of PortableApps might have said about it.