Took a while, but here's a trivial Win32 packaging target.
gist :
fpm…package…exe.rb
It creates basic self-extracting zips, with an Installer-like look and feel, courtesy of FreeExtractor. Its makesfx.exe runs well under wine/Linux; and neatly maps fpm package information.
Obviously its use regularily requires crafting a windows-specific start.cmd wrapper etc., and packaging files relocatable without absolute paths (no --prefix), so they can end up in $programfiles$/appxy.
If there's enough interest, it's eventually even possible to cut out the middleman (wine makesfx.exe) requirement.
The final "installer" .exe is just a concatenation of:
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the SFX binary,
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an INI-style description block (max 1024 byte),
[FE]
Name='package'
ZipSize=20524
Exec=
DefaultPath=C:/App/
Intro="...\n"
URL=
Author=
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and the plain ZIP archive appended.
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(Not sure about the icon though.)
Took a while, but here's a trivial Win32 packaging target.
gist :
fpm…package…exe.rb
It creates basic self-extracting zips, with an Installer-like look and feel, courtesy of FreeExtractor. Its
makesfx.exeruns well under wine/Linux; and neatly maps fpm package information.Obviously its use regularily requires crafting a windows-specific
start.cmdwrapper etc., and packaging files relocatable without absolute paths (no--prefix), so they can end up in$programfiles$/appxy.If there's enough interest, it's eventually even possible to cut out the middleman (
wine makesfx.exe) requirement.The final "installer"
.exeis just a concatenation of:the SFX binary,
an INI-style description block (max 1024 byte),
and the plain ZIP archive appended.
(Not sure about the icon though.)