#!/usr/bin/perl -w # # Shows one way to write a self-extracting archive file. # This is not intended for production use, and it always extracts to a # subdirectory with a fixed name. # Plus, it requires Perl and A::Z to be installed first. # # In general, you want to provide a stub that is platform-specific. # You can use 'unzipsfx' that it provided with the Info-Zip unzip program. # Get this from http://www.info-zip.org . # # $Revision: 1.6 $ # use strict; use Archive::Zip; use IO::File; # Make a self-extracting Zip file. die "usage: $0 sfxname file [...]\n" unless @ARGV > 1; my $outputName = shift(); my $zip = Archive::Zip->new(); foreach my $file (@ARGV) { $zip->addFileOrDirectory($file); } my $fh = IO::File->new($outputName, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0777) or die "Can't open $outputName\: $!\n"; binmode($fh); # add self-extracting Perl code while (<DATA>) { $fh->print($_) } $zip->writeToFileHandle($fh); $fh->close(); # below the __DATA__ line is the extraction stub: __DATA__ #!/usr/local/bin/perl # Self-extracting Zip file extraction stub # Copyright (C) 2002 Ned Konz use Archive::Zip qw(:ERROR_CODES); use IO::File; use File::Spec; my $dir = $ARGV[0] || 'extracted'; my $zip = Archive::Zip->new(); my $fh = IO::File->new($0) or die "Can't open $0\: $!\n"; die "Zip read error\n" unless $zip->readFromFileHandle($fh) == AZ_OK; (mkdir($dir, 0777) or die "Can't create directory $dir\: $!\n") unless -d $dir; for my $member ( $zip->members ) { $member->extractToFileNamed( File::Spec->catfile($dir,$member->fileName) ); } __DATA__