1 7-Zip for installers 9.38 2 ------------------------- 3 4 7-Zip is a file archiver for Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/7/8/10. 5 6 7-Zip for installers is part of LZMA SDK. 7 LZMA SDK is written and placed in the public domain by Igor Pavlov. 8 9 It's allowed to join 7-Zip SFX module with another software. 10 It's allowed to change resources of 7-Zip's SFX modules. 11 12 13 HOW to use 14 ----------- 15 16 7zr.exe is reduced version of 7za.exe of 7-Zip. 17 7zr.exe supports only format with these codecs: LZMA, LZMA2, BCJ, BCJ2, ARM, Copy. 18 19 Example of compressing command for installation packages: 20 21 7zr a archive.7z files 22 23 7zSD.sfx is SFX module for installers. 7zSD.sfx uses msvcrt.dll. 24 25 SFX modules for installers allow to create installation program. 26 Such module extracts archive to temp folder and then runs specified program and removes 27 temp files after program finishing. Self-extract archive for installers must be created 28 as joining 3 files: SFX_Module, Installer_Config, 7z_Archive. 29 Installer_Config is optional file. You can use the following command to create installer 30 self-extract archive: 31 32 copy /b 7zSD.sfx + config.txt + archive.7z archive.exe 33 34 The smallest installation package size can be achieved, if installation files was 35 uncompressed before including to 7z archive. 36 37 -y switch for installer module (at runtime) specifies quiet mode for extracting. 38 39 Installer Config file format 40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 41 Config file contains commands for Installer. File begins from string 42 ;!@Install@!UTF-8! and ends with ;!@InstallEnd@!. File must be written 43 in UTF-8 encoding. File contains string pairs: 44 45 ID_String="Value" 46 47 ID_String Description 48 49 Title Title for messages 50 BeginPrompt Begin Prompt message 51 Progress Value can be "yes" or "no". Default value is "yes". 52 RunProgram Command for executing. Default value is "setup.exe". 53 Substring %%T will be replaced with path to temporary 54 folder, where files were extracted 55 Directory Directory prefix for "RunProgram". Default value is ".\\" 56 ExecuteFile Name of file for executing 57 ExecuteParameters Parameters for "ExecuteFile" 58 59 60 You can omit any string pair. 61 62 There are two ways to run program: RunProgram and ExecuteFile. 63 Use RunProgram, if you want to run some program from .7z archive. 64 Use ExecuteFile, if you want to open some document from .7z archive or 65 if you want to execute some command from Windows. 66 67 If you use RunProgram and if you specify empty directory prefix: Directory="", 68 the system searches for the executable file in the following sequence: 69 70 1. The directory from which the application (installer) loaded. 71 2. The temporary folder, where files were extracted. 72 3. The Windows system directory. 73 74 75 Config file Examples 76 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 77 78 ;!@Install@!UTF-8! 79 Title="7-Zip 4.00" 80 BeginPrompt="Do you want to install the 7-Zip 4.00?" 81 RunProgram="setup.exe" 82 ;!@InstallEnd@! 83 84 85 86 ;!@Install@!UTF-8! 87 Title="7-Zip 4.00" 88 BeginPrompt="Do you want to install the 7-Zip 4.00?" 89 ExecuteFile="7zip.msi" 90 ;!@InstallEnd@! 91 92 93 94 ;!@Install@!UTF-8! 95 Title="7-Zip 4.01 Update" 96 BeginPrompt="Do you want to install the 7-Zip 4.01 Update?" 97 ExecuteFile="msiexec.exe" 98 ExecuteParameters="/i 7zip.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus" 99 ;!@InstallEnd@! 100 101 102 103 Small SFX modules for installers 104 -------------------------------- 105 106 7zS2.sfx - small SFX module (GUI version) 107 7zS2con.sfx - small SFX module (Console version) 108 109 Small SFX modules support this codecs: LZMA, LZMA2, BCJ, BCJ2, ARM, COPY 110 111 Small SFX module is similar to common SFX module for installers. 112 The difference (what's new in small version): 113 - Smaller size (30 KB vs 100 KB) 114 - C source code instead of ++ 115 - No installer Configuration file 116 - No extracting progress window 117 - It decompresses solid 7z blocks (it can be whole 7z archive) to RAM. 118 So user that calls SFX installer must have free RAM of size of largest 119 solid 7z block (size of 7z archive at simplest case). 120 121 How to use 122 ---------- 123 124 copy /b 7zS2.sfx + archive.7z sfx.exe 125 126 When you run installer sfx module (sfx.exe) 127 1) It creates "7zNNNNNNNN" temp folder in system temp folder. 128 2) It extracts .7z archive to that folder 129 3) It executes one file from "7zNNNNNNNN" temp folder. 130 4) It removes "7zNNNNNNNN" temp folder 131 132 You can send parameters to installer, and installer will transfer them to extracted .exe file. 133 134 Small SFX uses 3 levels of priorities to select file to execute: 135 136 1) Files in root folder have higher priority than files in subfolders. 137 2) File extension priorities (from high to low priority order): 138 bat, cmd, exe, inf, msi, cab (under Windows CE), html, htm 139 3) File name priorities (from high to low priority order): 140 setup, install, run, start 141 142 Windows CE (ARM) version of 7zS2.sfx is included to 7-Zip for Windows Mobile package. 143 144 145 Examples 146 -------- 147 148 1) To create compressed console 7-Zip: 149 150 7zr a c.7z 7z.exe 7z.dll -mx 151 copy /b 7zS2con.sfx + c.7z 7zCompr.exe 152 7zCompr.exe b -md22 153 154 155 2) To create compressed GUI 7-Zip: 156 157 7zr a g.7z 7zg.exe 7z.dll -mx 158 copy /b 7zS2.sfx + g.7z 7zgCompr.exe 159 7zgCompr.exe b -md22 160 161 162 3) To open some file: 163 164 7zr a h.7z readme.txt -mx 165 copy /b 7zS2.sfx + h.7z 7zTxt.exe 166 7zTxt.exe 167
