Right-Click and choose 7Zip –> “Add to Archive”.Go to the folder that has your msi and your setup.exe.This is where we will copy all the required files. To make this easy create a folder c:\Install. It is actually quite simple to do if you follow these easy steps. How to make a self extracting archive that launches your installer after extraction I have finally worked it out and below are some detailed instructions. I wanted to use 7Zip to create the self extracting archive but I could not seem to find a simple guide that explained exactly how to do it. The self extracting archive option seems the best. Create a self extracting archive that runs, extracts the software and then calls the setup.exe.Just provide the msi file, but this by passes the pre-requisite checks which is not ideal or.Zip the two files – the user has to download a zip, extract the zip and run the setup.exe.
So you want to provide a download for your product from your website as a single file. setup.exe – which is the bootstrap that does your pre-requisite checks.When you use the default Microsoft Visual Studio Installer (yes, it is back as an extension for VS 2013 – Visual studio Installer Projects Extension), the output are two files: Next file required contains all customizations packaged up in an. msi installer package provided by 7-Zip guys available on their website: To get our deployment started we need a copy of. Quick compression ratio stats show how well 7-Zip does against the competition:įILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 for Windows and Google Earth for Windows after full installation. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. 7z compression format is one of the best to use if you care about final file size – to quote 7-Zip themselves here is what they have to say:Ĭompression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Functionality wise its definitely on pair with any paid solution available today. Following on from my last post which talked about deployment of VLC Media Player 2.0.4 we are going to look at pushing out 7-Zip 9.20 in the enterprise.ħ-Zip has been around for as long as I can remember and its a very good alternative to WinRAR and WinZIP – both of which are chargeable.
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