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Hi Johan, I happen to look at the Oomph launch code last week. However, I don’t think it will help in your case. The Oomph extractor first locates an JRE and launches it [1], to extract the different parts from the executable in Java and launches
the eclipse executable [2]. Google for ‘self extracting exe’ Check out the Oomph source code: Rolf From: tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Johan Compagner Hi, this is not really i guess a tycho question but maybe some body from this list knows a bit more How does eclipse really generate those self extracting exe (windows) and dmg (mac) files for their installers? Is that something tycho can do? I know they are using https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.oomph but i am not really interested in that, i would like to know the very fist part of that The creation of the self extracting exe file with a script that then extracts a eclipse product with oomph and runs that... I don't really need oomph we already have our own installer, but with the current java world we would like that have an installer that has an embedded java install inside it... so the self extacting exe would extract our izpack jar file together with a "jre" and then a script would just start that jar file with the bundled jre.. that would then in the end install a our eclipe product build with tycho and also a jre bundled inside it to run it without needing to have java on the target machine already installed. -- Johan Compagner Servoy |