IntroductionCrinkler is an executable file compressor (or rather, a compressing linker) for Windows specifically targeted towards compressing 4k intros.
Crinkler is being developed by Rune L. H. Stubbe (Mentor/TBC) and Aske Simon Christensen (Blueberry/Loonies).
History18.12.05: Version 0.4 released:
Changed header and import code to make output EXE files compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows.
Fixed a bug in the ordinal range import mechanism.
Added a switch to control the process priority.
Added a warning for range import of an unused DLL.
Some more header squeezing.
31.10.05: Version 0.3 released:
Output EXE files are now Windows 2000 compatible.
Added a number of verbose options to output useful information about the program being compressed.
Added an option for transforming function calls to use absolute offsets to improve compression.
Fixed a bug in the linker regarding identically named sections.
Fixed a potential crash bug in the linker.
Various small tweaks and optimizations.
23.07.05: Version 0.2 released:
Fixed bug in the decompressor.
Changed the behaviour of the /CRINKLER option.
Added timing to the progress bars.
Some updates to the manual and usage description.
