UPX Compressed Minimo
27th September 2006
The lead developer of Minimo has released a new build which has been compressed with UPX4PPC. UPX essentially compresses an executeable and turns it into a self extracting, self executing, smaller version of itself. The decompressor is tacked onto the front end of the exe, so no seperately installed software needs to be present on a system to use UPX compressed executables. On systems with limited storage & execution space like a PDA, UPX compressed exes can be a big space saver and will actually decrease time to execute many programs. On my Netbook Pro, it now only takes 12 seconds for Minimo to load to google instead of the 18 seconds that a non-compressed build from around the same date took.
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:26 pm
Hello. This sounds great. I’ve downloaded a few of the builds for Minimo for youe on my Netbook pro, but can’t seem to get the program to run. Please advise.
October 2nd, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Get the cellcore.dll pack from http://izemize.fw.hu/hpc.php
I believe the one you want is around 7.5 KB. You need to drop the 7.5KB cellcore.dll into the main Minimo directory. Many PPC applications rely on dll files not found on Win CE Core systems.
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:40 pm
Thanks! How does one figure out which dll to use, is it a trial and error sort of exploration? Thanks again, got the program to run and its great.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:50 am
There is a program called “Executeability Check” which can help you track down missing dependency issues, as well as determine whether a given dll provides all the needed functions. There are a number of “dummy” or “stub” .dll files that you can use to get PPC applications running on HPC devices.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Cupertino/2039/