yener90's Inno Project Source Codes

[BAMsE]

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means definition of compression method

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means compressing with precomp (with parameters defined in arc.ini under [External compressor:precomp] section)

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means additional parameter for precomp (which is not defined in arc.ini), in this case it's -v parameter

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means compressing with srep (with parameters defined in arc.ini under [External compressor:srep] section), also here you can add parameters separated by ":"

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means compression with lzma

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

means additional parameters for lzma, in this case -a1 -mfbt4 -d256m -fb128 -mc1000 -lc8


So as you can see it's really strong compression

[Onizuka87k]

Hum.. guys i'm trying to use the latest version with arc commandline but i've some problem!
I used this arc.ini

[External compressor:srep]
header = 0
packcmd   = srep {options} -m3f $$arcdatafile$$.tmp $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp
unpackcmd = srep -d -s $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp $$arcdatafile$$.tmp

[External compressor:precomp]
header = 0
packcmd   = precomp -intense0 -c- {options} -o$$arcpackedfile$$.tmp  $$arcdatafile$$.tmp
unpackcmd = precomp -o$$arcdatafile$$.tmp -r $$arcpackedfile$$.tmp

i put it on the root of Setup.cab (as in the example yener90 has given us).

Then i edit Setup.ini adding the precomp version used for compression (PrecompVer=0.42) and adding the code for Extractsetting, like this

[ExtractSettings]
FreeArcFile1={src}\Setup-1b.arc;DestDir:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:0;Lang:it
FreeArcFile2={src}\Setup-1c.arc;DestDir:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:0;Lang:it
FreeArcFile3={src}\Setup-1d.arc;DestDir:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:0;Lang:it
FreeArcFile4={src}\Setup-1e.arc;DestDir:{app};Disk:1;PrecSrep:0;Lang:it

(i have doubts on PrecSrep value but i tested with 0 and with 1 and there are no differences!)

I have four archives compressed in this way (each line is an archive):

arc a -r -w.\ Setup-1b.arc -msrep+lzma:a1:d256mb:mfbt4:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "folder1\*"
arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ Setup-1c.arc -mprecomp:zl11,68:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "file1.test" "file2.test" "file3.test"
arc a -r -w.\ Setup-1d.arc -msrep+lzma:a1:d256mb:mfbt4:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "folder2\*" "file4.test"
arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ Setup-1e.arc -msrep+lzma:a1:d256mb:mfbt4:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "file5.test"

During installation I always get an error (about decompression method) and I can't extract any archive.

edit: i thought the problem was my arc.ini (the "unpackcmd" command) but doing manual decompression with command line, arc works fine!
(for example, doing "arc x Setup-1c.arc" the extraction works fine. Obviously arc.exe, arc.ini, srep and precomp (and all dll needed) are in the same folder!)

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks

[lupetto77]

Bamse I did as you said ...
No one folder I put the files taken from the installation of arc.exe freeArc \ bin \ arc.exe (0.67), taken from the

folder setup arc.ini Yener, precomp 042 with its 3.0 SREP file and then I created the file . bat with written inside

echo off
cls
set choice1=
echo.
set /p choice1=Please type game folder path (e.g. c:\program files (x86)\BioWare\Mass Effect 3):
echo.
echo Creating archive files, please wait...
arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ .\Disk1\Data1.bin -mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:l c8 "%choice1%\Binaries\*"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail
echo.All done.
pause
goto EOF
:arcfail
echo.
echo.WARNING: FreeArc returns an error, please retry...
pause
:EOF

if using your parameter -mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:l c8 gives me this error

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I tried precomp.exe 042 04 038 but 'equal

could you pass the working files that you use please?

[Kurutucu]

Use this version of precomp. Version: 0.4.2

[Onizuka87k]

Originally Posted by lupetto77

Bamse I did as you said ...
No one folder I put the files taken from the installation of arc.exe freeArc \ bin \ arc.exe (0.67), taken from the

folder setup arc.ini Yener, precomp 042 with its 3.0 SREP file and then I created the file . bat with written inside

...

if using your parameter -mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:l c8 gives me this error

...

Did you write it like as you pasted here? If yes then delete the space between "l" and "c". The line of parameters is valid.

[lupetto77]

Originally Posted by Onizuka87k

Did you write it like as you pasted here? If yes then delete the space between "l" and "c". The line of parameters is valid.

I know because I put in this

-mprecomp:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

do not know why I added my own ...

[lupetto77]

Bamse I tried the command lines that you posted, it compiles but when I go to install I get this error ...



help on how I can solve this problem?

[Onizuka87k]

Originally Posted by lupetto77

Bamse I tried the command lines that you posted, it compiles but when I go to install I get this error ...



help on how I can solve this problem?

It's the same bug i had with my personal installer of Prototype2.
I don't know if it's the right way but i solved excluding (by comment) CLS-precomp.dll:

;Source: include\CLS-precomp.dll; DestDir: {tmp}; Flags: dontcopy

and

//ExtractTemporaryFile('CLS-precomp.dll');

My lines of code will be different from yours but these points should be respectively close to the lines 70 and 4930.

ps: Since you use the arc command-line, do you edit the line about precomp version on Setup.ini like this?

PrecompVer=inside

Try this way!

[lupetto77]

Thank you commenting the two lines as you said you now works great

[Onizuka87k]

Originally Posted by lupetto77

Thank you commenting the two lines as you said you now works great

Np but this is a temporary "workaround" until Yener90 will fix it!
The "side effect" using this way is you won't have any progress in the installer progress-bar during decompression of precomp files (and for big files the setup might seems freezed while it's really working!)

[lupetto77]

Since I'm a beginner with these command lines I wanted to ask you a few things:

1.quale between these compresses more

-mprecomp:zl68:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8
-mprecomp:zl68:d0+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8
-mprecomp:zl11,68:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8
-mprecomp:zl98:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8

2.With this code how do I compress multiple folders?
I have a folder such as Mass Effect 3 and inside there are 3 more folders 1 - 2 - 3 as I pack them in single file Data2.bin

code:

echo off
cls
set choice1=
echo.
set /p choice1=Please type game folder path (e.g. c:\program files (x86)\BioWare\Mass Effect 3):
echo.
echo Creating archive files, please wait...
arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ .\Disk1\Data1.bin -mprecomp:zl68:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "%choice1%\Binaries\*"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail
echo.All done.
pause
goto EOF
:arcfail
echo.
echo.WARNING: FreeArc returns an error, please retry... 
pause
:EOF

[Onizuka87k]

Originally Posted by lupetto77

Since I'm a beginner with these command lines I wanted to ask you a few things:

1.quale between these compresses more

2.With this code how do I compress multiple folders?
I have a folder such as Mass Effect 3 and inside there are 3 more folders 1 - 2 - 3 as I pack them in single file Data2.bin

I'm not a guru but:

1) It depends on the type of data you are compressing. The command-line number 3 might does a great job but not always. Anyway you can run precomp without any parameters and it might suggest you the best parameters! According to the guide of precomp:

-zl: (Comfort: zLib_Levels)

After precompressing a file with Precomp, it tells you how to use this parameter to speed up the precompression the next time you precompress this file. These are one or more two-digit numbers. The first digit is the compression level, the second digit is the memory settings which are tried on this file. However, using this on a different file could lead to Precomp missing some compressed parts of it.

2) Maybe this is what you looking for?

arc a -ep1 -r -w.\ .\Disk1\Data1.bin -mprecomp:zl68:d1+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "Folder1\*" "Folder2\*" "Folder3\*"