I would say its safe to say it would be cool and extremely useful to have a option for a command line packer. The packer would be ran after the compiler is finished so that we can pack our binarys all in one step with the compile. Instead of having to compile and then pack which takes much longer (and is a pain in the rear end). I know this can be done and should be fairly simple for the team to implement. All we need is a file browser for selecting the packer.exe, then a input for packer command line options, and lastly a file variable for the full path to the compiled binary (such as %File%).
Example UPX
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Use Packer On Every Compile? (x)Yes ()No
Packer: ["C:\upx\upx.exe"] (Browse)
Command Line: [%File% --best]
Which would result in "upx.exe %File% --best".
Example Prtite32
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Use Packer On Every Compile? (x)Yes ()No
Packer: ["C:\petite\petite.exe"] (Browse)
Command Line: [-9 -r* %File%]
Which would result in "petite.exe -9 -r* %File%".
I don't know exactly but I think you get the idea, would save us who compile a lot, a lot of time between switching to a packer. Before we can distribute our software, most common and popular packers have a command line version as well.
