{"id":2564,"date":"2018-04-13T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2021-11-14T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:45:48","slug":"creating-portable-exe-or-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/creating-portable-exe-or-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating portable .EXE or self-extracting installer (using 7zip)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Creating Self-Extracting (portable) .EXE packages<\/h1>\n

To create portable .exe files, in the past I tried “7-zip SFX Maker<\/strong>” (but it didn’t always worked on customer’s computer), also tried many installer-creators (like Inno-Setup) and etc… Frankly speaking, I had rarely found a simple program, that could do the simplest task – just put the files<\/strong> in package and run the containing exe<\/strong> file. For that reason, we created another simple SFX-Packager <\/strong>(idea comes from this\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0).<\/span><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0Download\u00a0\u00a0SFX-Packager.zip<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and unpack anywhere (you need to have 7-zip<\/a><\/strong> already installed on PC).<\/p>\n

2) Ready all your files inside a yourfolder<\/strong> (inside it, there should be your primary executable file, either .exe<\/code>\u00a0or whatever)<\/p>\n

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3) Drag yourFolder<\/strong> onto the the unpacked\u00a0SFX_Packager_installer.bat\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s all, you will get the file named _portable_myApplication.exe<\/strong><\/code>\u00a0 aside the yourFolder.\u00a0<\/strong> (The only drawback is that as it’s not officially signed by windows, on first run Windows-Defender Virus Scanner will check it for few seconds) and then the program will run well.\u00a0 (p.s. If you need, you can see available SFX commands-list<\/a><\/span>).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creating Self-Extracting (portable) .EXE packages To create portable .exe files, in the past I tried “7-zip SFX Maker” (but it didn’t always worked on customer’s computer), also tried many installer-creators(Continue Reading)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puvox.software\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}