Have UPX best compress rato for Linux/ELF files?

Hi

Have UPX best compress rato for Linux/ELF files?
Or there are better tools for Linux?

[SiNTAX]

Originally Posted by Fred

Have UPX best compress rato for Linux/ELF files?

Hmm this is something you can eaily check yourself, no?

Originally Posted by Fred

Or there are better tools for Linux?

Just wondering WHY you want to compress a Linux executable anyway?! If you want to save space on a CD or something like that, you're better off using cloop (compressed loopback device).. with the added advantage that your exe will have a lower virtual memory footprint as Linux can demand page the executable, which it can't with a compressed exe.

[Zigmund]

I belive UPX is most universal compressor for executable files, so it will be very hard to find any other better compression tools for *NIX files. imho.

[gabri3l]

You would think there would be more options for compressing elf executables. Your best bet is to use UPX as it is pretty stable and universal. You can try exepak located at sourceforge. Hasn't been a new release for about 7 months though. I assume you want to distribute the file however if you are not thinking about distributing your executables you can use TCX to compress and decompress on the fly. Hope that helps.