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NAME
upx - compress or expand executable files
SYNOPSIS
upx [ *command* ] [ *options* ] *filename*...
ABSTRACT
The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
Copyright (c) 1996-2002 Markus Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar
http://upx.sourceforge.net
UPX is a portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for
several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent
compression ratio and offers **very** fast decompression. Your
executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks for most of the
formats supported.
While you may use UPX freely for both non-commercial and commercial
executables (for details see the file LICENSE), we would highly
appreciate if you credit UPX and ourselves in the documentation,
possibly including a reference to the UPX home page. Thanks.
[ Using UPX in non-OpenSource applications without proper credits is
considered not politically correct ;-) ]
DISCLAIMER
UPX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file LICENSE.
Having said that, we think that UPX is quite stable now. Indeed we have
compressed lots of files without any problems. Also, the current version
has undergone several months of beta testing - actually it's more than 4
years since our first public beta back in 1998.
This is the first production quality release, and we plan that future
1.xx releases will be backward compatible with this version.
Please report all problems or suggestions to the authors. Thanks.
DESCRIPTION
UPX is a versatile executable packer with the following features:
- excellent compression ratio: compresses better than zip/gzip,
use UPX to decrease the size of your distribution !
- very fast decompression: about 10 MB/sec even on my old Pentium 133
- no memory overhead for your compressed executables for most of the
supported formats
- safe: you can list, test and unpack your executables
Also, a checksum of both the compressed and uncompressed file is
maintained internally.
- universal: UPX can pack a number of executable formats:
* atari/tos
* dos/exe
* dos/sys
* dos/com
* djgpp2/coff
* linux/386
* rtm32/pe
* tmt/adam
* watcom/le (supporting DOS4G, PMODE/W, DOS32a and CauseWay)
* win32/pe
- portable: UPX is written in portable endian-neutral C++
- extendable: because of the class layout it's very easy to support
new executable formats or add new compression algorithms
- free: UPX can be distributed and used freely. And from version 0.99
the full source code of UPX is released under the GNU General Public
License (GPL) !
You probably understand now why we call UPX the "*ultimate*" executable
packer.
COMMANDS
Compress
This is the default operation, eg. upx yourfile.exe will compress the
file specified on the command line.
Decompress
All UPX supported file formats can be unpacked using the -d switch, eg.
upx -d yourfile.exe will uncompress the file you've just compressed.
Test
The -t command tests the integrity of the compressed and uncompressed
data, eg. upx -t yourfile.exe check whether your file can be safely
decompressed. Note, that this command doesn't check the whole file, only
the part that will be uncompressed during program execution. This means
that you should not use this command instead of a virus checker.
List
The -l command prints out some information about the compressed files
specified on the command line as parameters, eg upx -l yourfile.exe
shows the compressed / uncompressed size and the compression ratio of
*yourfile.exe*.
OPTIONS
-q: be quiet, suppress warnings
-q -q (or -qq): be very quiet, suppress errors
-q -q -q (or -qqq): produce no output at all
--help: prints the help
--version: print the version of UPX
[ ...to be written... - type `upx --help' for now ]
COMPRESSION LEVELS & TUNING
UPX offers ten different compression levels from -1 to -9, and --best.
The default compression level is -8 for files smaller than 512 kB, and
-7 otherwise.
* Compression levels 1, 2 and 3 are pretty fast.
* Compression levels 4, 5 and 6 achieve a good time/ratio performance.
* Compression levels 7, 8 and 9 favor compression ratio over speed.
* Compression level --best may take a long time.
Note that compression level --best can be somewhat slow for large files,
but you definitely should use it when releasing a final version of your
program.
Since UPX 0.70 there is also an extra compression level --best which
squeezes out even some more compression ratio. While it is usually fine
to use this option with your favorite .com file it may take a long time
to compress a multi-megabyte program. You have been warned.
Quick start for achieving the best compression ratio:
Try upx --best --crp-ms=999999 --nrv2b -o result_2b.exe and upx
--best --crp-ms=999999 --nrv2d -o result_2d.exe, and keep the
smaller of the two resulting executables.
Details for achieving the best compression ratio:
* Use the option --best.
* Try the option --crp-ms=NUMBER. This uses more memory during
compression to achieve a (slightly) better compression ratio.
NUMBER must be a decimal value from 10000 to 999999, inclusive. The
default value is 10000 (ten thousand).
* Manually compress the program multiple times, thereby trying all
available compression methods and keep the best version. Currently
available compression methods options are --nrv2b and --nrv2d.
* Try if --overlay=strip works.
* For win32/pe programs there's --strip-relocs=0. See notes below.
OVERLAY HANDLING OPTIONS
UPX handles overlays like many other executable packers do: it simply
copies the overlay after the compressed image. This works with some
files, but doesn't work with others.
Since version 0.90 UPX defaults to --overlay=copy for all executable
formats.
--overlay=copy Copy any extra data attached to the file. [DEFAULT]
--overlay=strip Strip any overlay from the program instead of
copying it. Be warned, this may make the compressed
program crash or otherwise unusable.
--overlay=skip Refuse to compress any program which has an overlay.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable UPX can hold a set of default options for UPX.
These options are interpreted first and can be overwritten by explicit
command line parameters. For example:
for DOS/Windows: set UPX=-9 --compress-icons#0
for sh/ksh/zsh: UPX="-9 --compress-icons=0"; export UPX
for csh/tcsh: setenv UPX "-9 --compress-icons=0"
Under DOS/Windows you must use '#' instead of '=' when setting the
environment variable because of a COMMAND.COM limitation.
Not all of the options are valid in the environment variable - UPX will
tell you.
You can use the --no-env option to turn this support off.
NOTES FOR THE SUPPORTED EXECUTABLE FORMATS
NOTES FOR ATARI/TOS
This is the executable format used by the Atari ST/TT, a 68000 based
personal computer which was popular in the late '80s. See
http://www.freemint.de for more info.
Packed programs will be byte-identical to the original after
uncompression. All debug information will be stripped, though.
Extra options available for this executable format:
(none)
NOTES FOR DOS/COM
Obviously UPX won't work with executables that want to read data from
themselves (like some commandline utilities that ship with Win95/98/ME).
Compressed programs only work on a 286+.
Packed programs will be byte-identical to the original after
uncompression.
Maximum uncompressed size: ~65100 bytes.
Extra options available for this executable format:
--8086 Create an executable that works on any 8086 CPU.
NOTES FOR DOS/EXE
dos/exe stands for all "normal" 16-bit DOS executables.
Obviously UPX won't work with executables that want to read data from
themselves (like some command line utilities that ship with
Win95/98/ME).
Compressed programs only work on a 286+.
Extra options available for this executable format:
--8086 Create an executable that works on any 8086 CPU.
--no-reloc Use no relocation records in the exe header.
NOTES FOR DOS/SYS
You can only compress plain sys files, sys/exe (two in one) combos are
not supported.
Compressed programs only work on a 286+.
Packed programs will be byte-identical to the original after
uncompression.
Maximum uncompressed size: ~65350 bytes.
Extra options available for this executable format:
--8086 Create an executable that works on any 8086 CPU.
NOTES FOR DJGPP2/COFF
First of all, it is recommended to use UPX *instead* of strip. strip has
the very bad habit of replacing your stub with its own (outdated)
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