[PATCH 1/4] wineaddon.cpl: Added initial Wine Add-ons Manager stub.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Hans Leidekker <hans at codeweavers.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 20:21 +0100, Jacek Caban wrote:
>
>> > What improvements are needed for 7zip? It seems to work fine here, I can
>> > use both the Windows and the Linux version to create self-extracting
>> > archives for Windows.
>> 
>> That's exactly the problem of creating Windows self-extracting archives 
>> on Linux. How do you do that?
>
> $ rm -f wine_gecko-1.1.0.7z
> $ 7z a wine_gecko-1.1.0.7z wine_gecko-1.1.0.msi gecko/
> $ cat 7zS.sfx wine_gecko-1.1.0.cfg wine_gecko-1.1.0.7z > 
>   wine_gecko-1.1.0.exe
>
> where 7zS.sfx is the self-extractor and wine_gecko-1.1.0.cfg looks
> like this:
>
> ;!@Install@!UTF-8!
> Title="Wine Gecko 1.1.0"
> BeginPrompt="Do you want to install Wine Gecko 1.1.0?"
> ExecuteFile="wine_gecko-1.1.0.msi"
> ;!@InstallEnd@!

Of course it would be even nicer to pack everything inside the msi
file, then we wouldn't need a self-extractor at all...

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org