![]() ![]() This is the stub file for your local platform. ![]() If you look in the directory of your 7zip binaries you’ll find a file called 7zCon.sfx. The code at the beginning is called ‘a stub’ when it exists on its own.Ī stub file in 7zip has a ‘.sfx’ suffix. Thus a self-extracting archive is platform specific but the good news it doesn’t require the target platform to have 7zip installed.Ī self-extracting archive simply has some platform specific native code at the beginning and then the actual archive concatenated to it so it becomes one big file. This post is about self-extracting archives, meaning an archive that carries with it its own code for how to extract on the target platform. For example see Bundled JRE – Size Matters.īut forget about whether or not you can expect 7zip to be installed on the target platform or not. The reason to use 7zip in the first place is that its compression mechanism, LZMA, is far more effective at compressing than say Info-Zip. Many, many users have it installed on Windows and it is available for Mac OS X as well. ![]() 7zip (or its unix/linux sibling p7zip) is today bundled with almost all Linux distros and Solaris. This post will explain how to create 7zip self-extracting archives for multiple platforms. ![]()
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