

His official page is no longer available, but the information provided from the Internet Archive should be adequate. To my knowledge 7z.sfx is not downloadable via the developer's site, but I may be wrong. Using the 7zsd.sfx created RecorderVer0.0.0.4.exe version directs files to the config set location without any prompting as desired. However, when executing the 7z.sfx created RecorderVer0.0.0.4".exe the prompt for where to install the contents of the 7z archive is prompted for. The same response occurs with the use of 7zsd.sfx indicating that indeed the config file included is being utilized. This is the config used: is the syntax I'm using and the responding behavior: C:\Users\\Desktop\Updater\Recorder>copy /b 7z.sfx + config.txt + "RecorderVer0.0.0.4".7z "RecorderVer0.0.0.4".exe 7z.sfx is referred to as "uncompressed SFX" in the history.txt file as well. The application history.txt in the program files directory shows that 7zsd.sfx used to be bundled with 7zip back in 2005. Steps 1 Open 7Zip File manager (7zFM.exe) 2 Find the Files, which can be anything, and then click the big green 'Add' button. The 7z.sfx appears not to honor my request to include the config.txt file I created for it, but the 7zsd.sfx inclusion method works perfectly.ħzip comes with 7z.sfx bundled. The “/B” is very important! It tells copy that these are binary files so it doesn’t add extra characters to the files.I can't figure out what the difference is between the 7z.sfx file available with 7zip and the downloadable 7zsd.sfx from the developer's site, which is not bundled with 7zip.

To concatenate the files and create the installer. This will create a file called app.7z that contains the changes.ĭownload the files and app.tag and save them in the same directory where the app.7z is located.Ĭopy /B +app.tag+app.7z our_new_installer.exe Repackage Firefox by running this command in the directory where you unzipped Firefox.ħz a -r -t7z app.7z -mx -m0=BCJ2 -m1=LZMA:d24 -m2=LZMA:d19 -m3=LZMA:d19 -mb0:1 -mb0s1:2 -mb0s2:3 Make your changes to Firefox in the core subdirectory. You'll need to use 7-zip in order to unzip it. It no longer exists (there are better tools to create installers by now, Inno Setup perhaps being the best there is), but older programs (or even newer programs. The stub installer is typically named "Firefox Installer.exe" whereas the full installer is named "Firefox Setup VERSION.exe." You can download full installer of Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) from here and of rapid release from here. After some research, I found that '7z Setup SFX' used to be a part of the LZMA SDK, the 7-zip toolkit for developers, and it was a utility to create installers based on 7-zip archives. Make sure you download a full installer and not a stub installer. Step 1: Download installerĭownload the installer that you want to repackage. Note: To see steps for the macOS, refer to Deploying Firefox Customizations on macOS.
