Powerbasic Sourcecode of the exe file is included, of course.
If we have a 32Bit and a 64Bit version, it can launch the correct Version (32Bit or 64Bit) fitting to the system the SFX is started on (contains a small exe file 'universal_launcher.exe' which expects two parameters for the 32Bit.exe and 64Bit.exe, checks the current system for 64Bit and then runs the correct file). First of all, download and install WinRAR on your. After that, I added some other options to make it a little more versatile. Create Portable Applications for your Windows PC Step 1: Install WinRAR and Universal Extractor 2 on your Windows PC. Nothing spectacular, but (in my eyes) very useful. 7Z is similar to other archived formats, such as ZIP, TAR.GZ, RAR, and ISO, but uses a higher compression ratio, along with AES-256 encryption. Some of the portable programs are quite large, so to make the using fancier, I started to compress the portable applications into a WinRar SFX Archive which extracts the software to the tempdir, starts the software and afterward deletes the whole temp Dir.īut it got cumbersome to manually extract the icon from the exe, make all necessary settings in the WinRar GUI - so I wrote this script. 7Z is the file extension used for an archived file created using 7-Zip, a free, open-source file compression tool. I've been very fond of portable software.
