BinCompress Tool (Windows CE 5.0)

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The BinCompress tool (bincompress.exe) compresses or decompresses .bin run-time images for use with the x86 basic input/output system (BIOS) boot loader.

bincompress [/C | /D] infileoutfile

Parameters

• /C
  Compresses infile and writes the results to outfile.
• /D
  decompresses infile and writes the results to outfile.

Remarks

BinCompress.exe is included with Platform Builder as a binary and as source code. The source code is in %_WINCEROOT%\Public\COMMON\oak\csp\x86\biosloader\utilities\bincompress.

BinCompress.exe compresses or decompresses a file using the Microsoft XPress compression algorithm.

You cannot rebuild BinCompress.exe. Although the source files are included with Platform Builder, some header files are omitted from the Platform Builder installation.

See Also

x86 BIOS Boot Loader

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