Hi Charles, I usually use upx which can compress these programs very well and still leaves you a .exe. You can find it at www.upx.org.
upx -9 file.exe Will enable the highest compression. Federico Federico Balbi Division of Computer Science University of Texas at San Antonio 6900 N. Loop 1604 West San Antonio, TX 78249-0667 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~fbalbi On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Hethcoat-III, Charles L wrote: > Greetings to all. I've been lurking awhile on this list. Now I have a question. > > The people in my workgroup all use Windows. Some also use Cygwin, but not all. > Some are programmers, but not all. I'll bet money none of them knows Icon, let > alone Unicon! > > I'd like to write some little but useful programs for these folks, and I'd like to > use Unicon to do it. I would prefer to distribute an executable form of each > program, and not have to mess with source code on the user's machines. > > A logistical question arises. > > The default behavior for Windows Unicon is to compile to a self-executing file. If > I understand correctly, each of these files includes its own complete copy of iconx. > That's convenient, but the files are huge. As an example, a little Icon utility > program of only 21 nonblank lines, when compiled, swelled into 553 KB! > > So, if I write a couple of dozen similar programs and distribute them to everyone in > my group, we are talking some serious bloat. > > I think I would prefer to go back to the old-style icode object files, and > separately install the runtime interpreter, iconx, on people's machines. This will > only hurt once, and each new program, in icode, is almost free. > > So my question is, can I turn this behavior back on with the Windows version? > > Any other suggestions? > > Thanks. > > Charles Hethcoat > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Unicon-group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
