Stefan Pantke wrote:
Am 30. Mrz 2005 um 19:36 schrieb Brian Rathbone:
Is it possible to reduce the initial size of a Windows application build
by RB ?
Is the customer unhappy about the size of the application on disk, or the
time it takes to download it?
If you want to decrease the download size, you can use InnoSetup or
another
installer package to compress the executable inside of an installer.
If you need the executable to be smaller on disk, then you could create a
self extracting executable. This would keep the executable compressed
until
you run it, then it would only use additional space while it was
running. I
wouldn't really recommend this, but there are times it comes in handy.
Brian,
do you have such a self uncompressing tool for windows? Well, although
it wouldn't be
too hard to write it for windows, why reinvent the wheel?
Try ASPack from www.aspack.com It is pretty good. It compresses the app
itself. The app stays an executable with the same name as the origianl
app, and you just click it to launch.
Here'a a description from the site
ASPack is an advanced Win32 executable file compressor, capable of
reducing the file size of 32-bit Windows programs by as much as 70%.
(ASPack's compression ratio improves upon the industry-standard zip file
format by as much as 10-20%.) ASPack makes Windows 95/98/NT programs and
libraries smaller, and decrease load times across networks, and download
times from the internet; it also protects programs against reverse
engineering by non-professional hackers. Programs compressed with ASPack
are self-contained and run exactly as before, with no runtime
performance penalties.
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Best regards,
Alexei Vinidiktov
Open Book - educational software for learning languages
English: http://www.vinidiktov.com
Russian: http://www.vinidiktov.ru
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