I'm try to make a compressed deploy-able application.
Currently I'm taking a set of files that I've published from my IDE (Visual Studio 2008 – WPF published application) and compressing them in a 7-Zip SFX archive.
My users have asked if they can "one click install" from the 7-Zip exe. There is a parameter list when I'm creating the archive. Is there a way to set some sort of combination of parameters to invoke the installer executable that is extracted?
Unfortunately the 7-Zip documentation doesn't seem to cover this scenario. I've seen several paid applications that do something similar to this, but I'm trying to keep the tool that I'm writing free of licensed code so that we can use it internally.
Best Answer
You will need to download the LMZA SDK from 7-Zip. The "installer.txt" file contains documentation:
You need to create a config.txt file.
For example: