Compiled exe size

[StandardUser]

Good day,

as far as I remember, compiled exe size in old versions of AutoIt was about 80kb("Hello world" type application). Now its about 300kb. Any ideas how to reduce it? Or anyone knows a better compressor than UPX? Thank you.

[Jos]

Good day,

as far as I remember, compiled exe size in old versions of AutoIt was about 80kb("Hello world" type application). Now its about 300kb. Any ideas how to reduce it? Or anyone knows a better compressor than UPX? Thank you.

Not really and have been discussed many times on these forums.

Jos

[StandardUser]

[Jos]

Ok, let me ask you this: What is the big issue with a 300K file/script?

[StandardUser]

Long story short - I want my application to be updateable through web interface, so the smaller the exe, the more traffic it saves. Also there are some other reasons.

[Kealper]

300KB is not alot unless you have like 300,000 people using (and updating it), and there is really no way to compress the script much more as explained by the Shannon Limit - which is why zipping a rar archive only saves another ~1KB.

[Jos]

Long story short - I want my application to be updateable through web interface, so the smaller the exe, the more traffic it saves. Also there are some other reasons.

I like the 'some other reasons' bit... that helps to have a good and open discussion.

Anyways: 300kb is NOTHING these days when looking at what is done with on-line applications.

[whim]

Long story short - I want my application to be updateable through web interface, so the smaller the exe, the more traffic it saves. Also there are some other reasons.

You might want to look into compiling to A3X then, that'll save > 200k since you don't need to

distribute the scripting engine with your updates

whim

[Kealper]

Hmm...thats a good idea, he could make the initial download be the a3x program, and an exe that just runs the a3x file with it's packed interpreter via /AutoIt3ExecuteScript then exits