Create self extracting windows executables under Linux
1) Download ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/WIN32/wiz502xN.exe
2) Save the executable into a folder of your choice.
3) Unzip the executable using unzip
4) Find the file named "sfx32.dat". This is the self-extracting stub
you use to create a Windows GUI self-extracting archive.
5) In Linux create, your zip file as you normally do.
6) Concatenate the stub file, "sfx32.dat" and your zip file to an .exe file.
Example: cat sfx32.dat myzip.zip > myzip.exe
7) Run "zip -A" on the .exe file you just generated. The "-A" tells zip to
adjust offsets to the data past the extractor stub. Example:
zip -A myzip.exe
myzip.exe: adjusting offsets for a preamble of 86038 bytes
This now seems to NOT be necessary, as just creating the exe as above
results in a self-extracting exe under Windows
8) Access the self-extracting archive from Windows and extract.
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