Exclude MS Visual C++ libraries from UPX compression.

windows/compress.bat

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+:: Compressing executables and libraries
+:: Copyright (C) 2011 Bastian Kleineidam
+:: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+:: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+:: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+:: (at your option) any later version.
+::
+:: This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+:: but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+:: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+:: GNU General Public License for more details.
+::
+:: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+:: with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+:: 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+
+set UPX_EXE="C:\Software\upx307w\upx.exe"
+
+:: Do not compress the MS Visual C++ runtime files. Otherwise the
+:: program won't run.
+if "%1" == "msvcm90.dll" goto :finish
+if "%1" == "msvcp90.dll" goto :finish
+if "%1" == "msvcr90.dll" goto :finish
+
+%UPX_EXE% "%1" --best
+
+:finish

windows/dist.bat

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 @echo off
 set PYDIR=C:\Python27
 set SZ_EXE="C:\Programme\7-Zip\7z.exe"
-set UPX_EXE="C:\Software\upx307w\upx.exe"
 for /f "usebackq tokens=*" %%a in (`%PYDIR%\python.exe setup.py --version`) do set VERSION="%%a"
 set PORTDIR=LinkChecker-%VERSION%
 rd /s /q build > nul
@@ -28,7 +27,8 @@ echo Building portable distribution
 rd /s /q %PORTDIR% > nul
 xcopy /e /i dist %PORTDIR%
 del %PORTDIR%\omt.iss
-echo Compressing executables
-for /r %PORTDIR% %%e in (*.pyd,*.dll,*.exe) do %UPX_EXE% "%%e" --best
+echo Compressing libraries and executables
+for /r %PORTDIR% %%f in (*.pyd,*.dll,*.exe) do call compress.bat "%%f"
+echo Generating portable distribution file
 %SZ_EXE% a -mx=9 -md=32m LinkChecker-%VERSION%-portable.zip %PORTDIR%
 rd /s /q %PORTDIR%