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This means that you will get a different user experience depending on what you application you use to create the sfx Okay I have got it working, hope this information is useful.įirst of all I now realize that not only do self-extracting zip start extracting with doubleclick, but they require no extraction application to be installed on the users computer because the extractor code is in the archive itself. Now you can just edit and run the Install.bat every time you need to rebuild a new version of you deployment package. copy /b 7zSD.sfx + config.txt + Installer.7z MyInstaller.exe Now that you have this working in your c:\Install directory I would create an "Install.bat" file and put the copy script in it. Look in c:\Install and you will now see you have a MyInstaller.exeĭouble click on MyInstaller.exe and it will prompt with your message. In the command window type the following cd \Ĭopy /b 7zSD.sfx + config.txt + Installer.7z MyInstaller.exe Open a cmd window, Window + R -> cmd -> press enter.These instructions I found on the web but nowhere did it explain any of the 4 steps above. You should now have a folder "c:\Install" with the following 3 files: Notes on the parameters and options for the setup file are here. Click the "Encoding Menu" and choose "Encode in UTF-8"īeginPrompt="Do you want to install SOFTWARE this replacing with your product name.

right-click and choose "Edit with NotePad++.

right-click and choose "New Text File" and name it config.txt.

Using windows explorer go to c:\Install.

I would recommend using NotePad++ to edit this text file as you will need to encode in UTF-8, the following instructions are using notepad++.

Extract the package and find 7zSD.sfx in the bin folder.

Download one of the LZMA packages from here.

Step 3 - Get the 7z-Extra sfx extension module

Name your archive "Installer.7z" (or a name of your choice).

Right-Click and choose 7Zip -> "Add to Archive".

This is where we will copy all the required files. To make this easy create a folder c:\Install. How to make a self extracting archive that runs your setup.exe with 7zip -sfx switch I have created step by step instructions on how to do this as I also was very confused about how to get this working.