tiprelop.blogg.se - Winzip self extractor silent

There must be a convenient way to create a custom self-extracting installer with a program that serves as sort of a self-extracting installer editor.Īs the compression format, I chose the zip format. The programs that make up the self-extracting installer should be reusable.This way, MSI setups appear to be much better integrated into the self-extracting installer.

An MSI file should be started via MSI APIs so that the MSI's user interface is parented to the self-extracting installer window.

Every setup component should be startable either via the execution of a program whose command line and executable can be specified, or be ShellExecute'd via the setup component's file extension.

This way, only the minimum temporary storage is required on the user's hard disk, and program startup is as fast as possible.

The individual setups to be extracted should be extracted on an on-demand basis, so not all embedded setups are extracted during program start.

The self-extracting installer should run on Windows 2000 and higher OS versions, and should be entirely UNICODE.

The compression format should be a standard format.

The individual setups should be stored in a compressed format in the self-extracting installer.

I came up with the following requirements for the solution to this problem: Having all relevant setups for each component combined in one big self-extracting installer with a user interface that allows for the selection of an individual component would be the ideal solution for this problem. If each of those components has a separate setup program or an MSI file that customers have to download, this is soon going to be tedious for the customer. Consider a company that ships a product suite that is made up of different components like a server installation, a client installation, an administrative installation, and a command line tools installation. I recently ran into a problem where I required a self-extracting installer that would allow customers to download one single huge file in order for them to choose from a variety of setups or associated documents, like readme files or release notes.

Download a ready to be used self extracting installer - 541.08 KB.

Download demo project for a self-extracting installer - 354.16 KB.