What happens ?

[UserOfPure]

However if I'm doing it so wrong you wouldn't mind compressing it for me then would you? Doubt that you can

:roll: Sure I can. Post the exe somewhere and I'll compress it and send it back. Your move. (Note: I might ask for the source code too, in case you try something sneaky to stop me).

[moogle]

:roll: Sure I can. Post the exe somewhere and I'll compress it and send it back. Your move. (Note: I might ask for the source code too, in case you try something sneaky to stop me).

Nah I wouldn't do something sneaky

Anyway I found the problem, the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Googled the error it was giving and it seems there's a limit of the size it will try to compress.

It worked on a bigger compiled PB exe.

[UserOfPure]

the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Hmm, well the frontend you're using is still not using UPX correctly, because I just used UPX to compress a 3 KB executable and it became 2.50 KB, so if it works on something that small, then your frontend is obviously using a pre-set size limit and refusing to compress anything smaller.

[moogle]

the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Hmm, well the frontend you're using is still not using UPX correctly, because I just used UPX to compress a 3 KB executable and it became 2.50 KB, so if it works on something that small, then your frontend is obviously using a pre-set size limit and refusing to compress anything smaller.

Hmm really?

Well it's PureUPX made by gnozal (I think?)

I get NotCompressibleException as an error from the commandline one.

[UserOfPure]

Is the source code able to be shown here, so I can try it for myself without a front-end? Because it should fail without the front-end too, and if it doesn't, then the front-end is the problem.

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

You're doing something wrong, then. All PB apps compress quite well, like any normal exe.

Sure...

How can I do it wrong with a frontend?

How do you do it then?

I even tried via command line upx.exe -4 file.exe and it fails

However if I'm doing it so wrong you wouldn't mind compressing it for me then would you? Doubt that you can

I would say you were doing something wrong myself....

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upx -9 -o"<INSERT FULL PATH TO OUTPUT FILE>OutputFile.exe" "<INSERT FULL PATH TO FILE>file.exe"

eg.

upx -9 -o"C:\Documents and Settings\moogle\Desktop\OutputFile.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\moogle\Desktop\FileToCompress.exe"

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

the exe I was trying to compress was too small

Hmm, well the frontend you're using is still not using UPX correctly, because I just used UPX to compress a 3 KB executable and it became 2.50 KB, so if it works on something that small, then your frontend is obviously using a pre-set size limit and refusing to compress anything smaller.

Hmm really?

Well it's PureUPX made by gnozal (I think?)

I get NotCompressibleException as an error from the commandline one.

Are you trying to compress an already compressed exe?

[moogle]

Are you trying to compress an already compressed exe?

Nope unless PB UPX's it after compilation
It just has 1 icon and it's 18.5kb and it fails on PureUPX with exit code=1 and NotCompressibleException

I would say you were doing something wrong myself....

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Moogle>cd ..

C:\Users>cd ..

C:\>cd upx304w

C:\upx304w>
C:\upx304w>upx -9 -o"C:\OutputFile.exe" "C:\upx304w\PressBot.exe"
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
                          Copyright (C) 1996 - 2009
UPX 3.04w       Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Sep 27th 2009

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
upx: C:\upx304w\PressBot.exe: NotCompressibleException

Packed 1 file: 0 ok, 1 error.

C:\upx304w>

Trying to convert an old piece of code that did compress so I can compile it under 4.4b7 to see if it still compresses.

[UserOfPure]

Can you post the PressBot.exe somewhere so we can see it?

[LuCiFeR[SD]]

Trying to convert an old piece of code that did compress so I can compile it under 4.4b7 to see if it still compresses.

yeah, I just tried to compress a really small 3KB file and it failed too. It was just a message requester. So, it looks like you were correct moogle, it is just down to filesize. Even with the force flag it failed to compress. So I guess I should swallow a little humbe pie here and apologise LOL

PECompact worked ok with it though, even though it did make the filesize larger... which is pretty pointless lol

[moogle]

Trying to convert an old piece of code that did compress so I can compile it under 4.4b7 to see if it still compresses.

yeah, I just tried to compress a really small 3KB file and it failed too. It was just a message requester. So, it looks like you were correct moogle, it is just down to filesize. Even with the force flag it failed to compress. So I guess I should swallow a little humbe pie here and apologise LOL

PECompact worked ok with it though, even though it did make the filesize larger... which is pretty pointless lol

Glad to know I wasn't going crazy

Yeah PECompact increased the size for mine too.

It's all PB's fault for those tiny exe sizes I say

Can you post the PressBot.exe somewhere so we can see it?

http://www.mediafire.com/?ahhdzuoquwl

Sorry I didn't get any email notifications on your messages

PS - Scan it first because I don't have a virus scanner, but it's nothing malicious. Just a key macro for a MMO I play

[UserOfPure]

I just tried to compress a really small 3KB file and it failed too. It was just a message requester

You know that 3 KB exe that I compressed with UPX? It was just a MessageRequester too:

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MessageRequester("hi","hi")

So I don't know why you can't compress it with UPX, when I can.

As for PressBot.exe, yes, it doesn't compress. But looking at the hex dump, it has a lot of repetitive data. My guess is it's got some binary thing included? Can I see the source to make a final decision?

[Mistrel]

Hello work in C is about 3kb with GNU's C++ compiler using C libraries. Include iostream and print it using cout and the executable jumps to nearly 500kb.

Compiling -s (remove debugging symbols) brings it down to about 270k. That's as low as I can get it; for a console app that prints "hello, world!" with iostream.

The Visual C++ compiler comes in a close section, still topping 200kb.

How's that for bloat.