selfext

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selfext

selfext is a cross-platform tool that turns any compressed file into a self-extracting file.

Security Notice!!!

• Be cautious about running executable files sent by others.
• Do not run executable files sent by strangers indiscriminately.

Install

Binary release

You can download the precompiled binary release for your platform from the releases page:

• https://github.com/gzj/selfext/releases

Build from Source

To build the selfext tool, you need to have Go installed. Then, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/selfext.git
cd selfext
make

Usage

To turn example.zip into a self-extracting file, run:

selfext example.zip

This will generate example.zip.exe, which extracts example.zip into the example directory when run.

How it works

• Selfext embeds a specified Golang SDK for different platforms.
• It embeds assets_generator and wrapper_generator files, along with all required dependency packages."
• Upon first run, it extracts and unpacks the Golang SDK, the wrapper, and its dependencies into the user's configuration directory.
• By reading command-line parameters specifying the target archive, os, and architecture, the tool uses the Go SDK to compile wrapper_generator and assets_generator outputs along with the specified archive into a platform-specific self-extracting archive.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Author

gzj