I wrote a while back of making a single executable installer for Visual Deployment Project (which output two file : setup.exe and setup.msi). It was done using IExpress that comes with Windows installation itself. However, it feels quite outdated now. Even the page that I refer to in that post is no longer works :). It require some scripting and the use of IExpress is not exactly intuitive nor friendly.
So, comes more straightforward solution using WinRar. I stumbled upon this post on stackoverflow. It basically intend to do the same thing using self-extracthing-archive feature in WinRar. It works much better and more maintainable. It does not require external scripting and you can add logo, title, description for the bootstrapper. I find the resulting installer looks cleaner to run with helpful info/logo.
You can checkout the post above for some description and screenshot (hopefully stackoverflow link is more long-lasting). In summary, the steps are :
- create New Archive
- set to SFX mode
- go to advanced tab
- click SFX options button
- customize things to your needs
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