Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows?

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Re: Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows? by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 26, 2005 at 03:24 UTC
I went to the Archive::Zip docs, did a find for "self" and found this snippet under the `writeToFileHandle()` method: ... this could be used (for instance) for making self-extracting archives. However, this only works reliably when writing to a real file (as opposed to STDOUT or some other possible non-file). See examples/selfex.pl for how to write a self-extracting archive. direct link: http://search.cpan.org/src/SMPETERS/Archive-Zip-1.16/examples/selfex.pl	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows? by inman (Curate) on Aug 26, 2005 at 07:49 UTC
If you use PAR to package your resulting script/data then you can distribute the self extracting archive to non-perl users.	[reply]
Re: Can I use Archive::Zip to create a self-extracting exe for Windows? by johnnywang (Priest) on Aug 26, 2005 at 05:50 UTC
yes, I just did it this week for one of my win32 backups, almost directly from the perldoc: `use Archive::Zip qw( :ERROR_CODES :CONSTANTS ); my $zip = Archive::Zip->new(); $member = $zip->addFile( 'xyz.pl'); die 'write error' unless $zip->writeToFileNamed( 'someZip.zip' ) == + AZ_OK;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]