[texworks] Congrats on 0.4! -- UPX-ing exe and dlls

[Paul A Norman]

P.S. unless you are wanting to run previous versions of Tw (as I need
to at times) you would not need many of the separate dlls shown, they
do give an idea though of the compression level available.

Paul

On 22 March 2011 14:14, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>  [texworks] 0.4.0 Release - Congratulations Stefan and everyone involved.
>
> A good milestone reached!
>
> I was in the process of zipping up my current installation as an
> archive before unzipping 0.4 over it,  and noticed the relatively high
> compression being achieved even by an older version of Winzip.
>
> Looking at the download zip and at Tw's exe, I saw that it has come
> down form 22mb to about 10mb in the downloaded zip.
>
> So as we do portable work form time to time, thought -- what about
> applying  UPX to the exe and dlls? So share this for any one wanting
> smaller exe and dlls.
>
> Using the -9 switch I got some great results, only two files I did not
> force as marked below.
>
> Initial start-up is just a bit slower, but then Tw flies along. Will
> keep testing. Disk space saving is very good. 22.5 down to 8.1 mb on
> TeXworks.exe alone!
>
> Makes any future Tw plugins possibly more attractive.
>
> I understand that UPX may work well for Linux executables as well if neeed?
>
> Data below.
>
> Paul
>
>                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
>                          Copyright (C) 1996 - 2010
> UPX 3.07w       Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser
>
>        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
>   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>  22,503,424 ->   8,188,928   36.39%    win32/pe     TeXworks.exe
>
>        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
>   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>   1,416,008 ->    812,872   57.41%    win32/pe     iconv.dll
> upx: jpeg62.dll: CantPackException: unexpected value in PE header (try --force)
>    156,672 ->     77,824   49.67%    win32/pe     libfontconfig.dll
>    427,520 ->    220,160   51.50%    win32/pe     libfreetype.dll
>     43,008 ->     20,480   47.62%    win32/pe     libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
>    199,680 ->     90,112   45.13%    win32/pe     liblcms-1.dll
>    336,208 ->    146,256   43.50%    win32/pe     libopenjpeg.dll
>    160,256 ->     78,848   49.20%    win32/pe     libpng12.dll
>    799,125 ->    417,173   52.20%    win32/pe     libpoppler-qt4.dll
>   2,136,717 ->   994,445   46.54%    win32/pe     libpoppler.dll
>    967,168 ->    412,672   42.67%    win32/pe     libxml2.dll
>     11,673 ->     10,137   86.84%    win32/pe     mingwm10.dll
>   2,286,080 ->   1,002,496   43.85%    win32/pe     python27.dll
>   2,412,032 ->    923,648   38.29%    win32/pe     QtCore4.dll
>   9,519,616 ->   3,749,376   39.39%    win32/pe     QtGui4.dll
>   1,852,416 ->    602,112   32.50%    win32/pe     QtScript4.dll
>    730,112 ->    212,480   29.10%    win32/pe     QtScriptTools4.dll
>    398,336 ->    145,408   36.50%    win32/pe     QtXml4.dll
>    235,520 ->     92,160   39.13%    win32/pe     TWLuaPlugin.dll
>    116,736 ->     39,424   33.77%    win32/pe     TWPythonPlugin.dll
> upx: zlib1.dll: CantPackException: unexpected value in PE header (try --force)
>   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>  24, 204, 883 ->  10, 048, 083   41.51%                 [ 19 files ]
>
> Packed 21 files: 19 ok, 2 errors.
>
> http://upx.sourceforge.net/
>