Before spending any time on this I would look at the Open Source 7-zip
compression utility (https://www.7-zip.org/). This is available for both
Windows and Linux and I use it to package my own Windows/FPC/Lazarus
builds for self-extraction and installation under Windows (I also use
Microsoft WIX to build the MSI files).
7z is readily scripted to archive your files into a single zip. All you
then need to do is to concatenate a pre-built 7z.sfx stub executable
with a text file containing the installation parameters and the zip
file. The result is a self-extracting archive. This is described in its
documentation under the -sfx (Create SFX archive) switch.
On 18/02/2019 12:59, Chavoux Luyt via lazarus wrote:
Hi all,
Many moons ago I wrote small self-extracting executable programs in
Delphi... the executable would basically include both the program
itself as well as some INI and data files; when running it would
access itself on disk, find the addresses within the exe file where
each data file starts (and its size) and then extract and write them
to disk. I think I installed a component for this in Delphi. The
component would both create the self-extracting exe and be included in
the exe in order to extract the files.
Before I start writing something from scratch, I just wanted to ask if
there are any such components (or components that would make writing
it easier) for Lazarus?
Thanks in advance!
Chavoux
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