Locked How to make a self extracting archive that runs your setup.exe with 7zip

[electrify]

Step 1 - Setup your installation folder
To make this easy create a folder c:\Install. This is where we will copy all the required files.

Step 2 - 7Zip your installers
Go to the folder that has your .msi and your setup.exe
Select both the .msi and the setup.exe
Right-Click and choose 7Zip --> "Add to Archive"
Name your archive "Installer.7z" (or a name of your choice)
Click Ok
You should now have "Installer.7z".
Copy this .7z file to your c:\Install directory

Step 3 - Get the 7z-Extra sfx extension module
Available in the link below

Follow this link to download 7Zip + other necessary files

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Install 7zip and copy the other files to c:\Install

Create a 7zip file with the name installer.7zip with your files and copy to c:\Install

Copy the file "7zS.sfx" to c:\Install

Copy config.txt to c:\Install or create your own 

Step 4 - Setup your config.txt
Use Notepad for this but save the file in UTF-8 encoding.
File > Save as > Encoding : UTF-8

Using windows explorer go to c:\Install
right-click and choose "New Text File" and name it config.txt
right-click and choose "Edit with notepad". 

Enter something like this:

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Edit this replacing [SOFTWARE v1.0.0.0] with your product name. Notes on the parameters and options for the setup file are here

After adding the lines save as config.txt in encoded in UTF-8

CheckPoint
You should now have a folder "c:\Install" with the following 3 files:

Installer.7z
7zS.sfx
config.txt

Step 5 - Create the archive
These instructions I found on the web but nowhere did it explain any of the 4 steps above.

Open a cmd window, Window + R --> cmd --> press enter
In the command window type the following

cd \
cd Install
copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + Installer.7z MyInstaller.exe
Look in c:\Install and you will now see you have a MyInstaller.exe

You are finished

Run the installer
Double click on MyInstaller.exe and it will prompt with your message. Click OK and the setup.exe will run.

Edited November 27, 2018 by electrify