problem with upx

[Frank Benoit]

kenshiro55 schrieb:
> kenshiro55 Wrote:
> 
>> After the compression of ControlExample with upx: - icons are not
>> displayed on tabs: Button, CoolBar, Table, ToolBar, Tree - but
>> icons are displayed on tabs: ExpandBar, Label, Menu.
>> 
>> It was working before the fix of these bugs: 
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=1414
>>  
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.dwt&article_id=1415
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Env: dmd 1.0.33, tango 0.99.7, Windows DWT 3.4 1
> 
> I did some tests and it think it's another manifest problem. If I
> compile without dwt.res (remove the line buildflags+= -L/rc:..\dwt in
> dsss.conf), the exe compressed with upx seems ok in console mode.
> 
> But then I found another problem. If I compile in gui mode without
> dwt.res, I can start the application from the console but not from
> the explorer.

I don't know UPX well. Perhaps it is bug in UPX?
Wikipedia has a list of alternatives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression
ASPack was used in the past for poseidon, i think.