Zip executables ?

[chichke]

Can we have an option like --zip to compress executables as soon as they are built 🤔

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[erossignon]

Instead of compressing the exectuable, we could at least compress the files inside the embedded virtual file system.

[robertsLando]

@erossignon This is interesting, any idea about how to do this?

[sayem314]

This is how to archive with pkg.
https://notabug.org/sayem314/d-fi/src/3e07f3fa8b0851f761c62ff4da4229e0b732f211/build.sh

sayem@pop-os:~/workflow/d-fi/d-fi$ ./build.sh
+ rm -rf build
+ rm -rf dist
+ yarn build
yarn run v1.22.5
$ eslint .
$ tsc
Done in 3.80s.
+ pkg --out-path build package.json --targets node14-linux-x64,node14-alpine-x64,node14-win-x64,node14-macos-x64
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+ cd build
+ for file in *
+ du -sh d-fi-alpine
47M	d-fi-alpine
+ [[ d-fi-alpine == *\.\e\x\e* ]]
+ mv d-fi-alpine d-fi
+ zip d-fi-alpine.zip d-fi
  adding: d-fi (deflated 63%)
+ rm d-fi
+ for file in *
+ du -sh d-fi-linux
42M	d-fi-linux
+ [[ d-fi-linux == *\.\e\x\e* ]]
+ mv d-fi-linux d-fi
+ zip d-fi-linux.zip d-fi
  adding: d-fi (deflated 62%)
+ rm d-fi
+ for file in *
+ du -sh d-fi-macos
38M	d-fi-macos
+ [[ d-fi-macos == *\.\e\x\e* ]]
+ mv d-fi-macos d-fi
+ zip d-fi-macos.zip d-fi
  adding: d-fi (deflated 66%)
+ rm d-fi
+ for file in *
+ du -sh d-fi-win.exe
36M	d-fi-win.exe
+ [[ d-fi-win.exe == *\.\e\x\e* ]]
+ mv d-fi-win.exe d-fi.exe
+ zip d-fi-win.zip d-fi.exe
  adding: d-fi.exe (deflated 62%)
+ rm d-fi.exe
+ du -sh d-fi-alpine.zip d-fi-linux.zip d-fi-macos.zip d-fi-win.zip
18M	d-fi-alpine.zip
16M	d-fi-linux.zip
13M	d-fi-macos.zip
14M	d-fi-win.zip

[robertsLando]

that will just add the files to an archive, doesn't make the archive executable

[sayem314]

@robertsLando oh I'm sorry. I think I misunderstood the issue.

[chichke]

Thanks for all the work put into this feature 🙏