[lokisetup] self-extracting bash script

Stephane Peter megastep at megastep.org
Wed Jul 24 21:01:43 EDT 2002


You want to take a look at makeself. It is now included as part of the
setup package, so I suggest you look at the 'makeself' directory in the
Loki Setup source code.

The makeself.sh script is used to generate such self-extracting
archives.

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:46, Chris Thielen wrote:
> hello,
> 	this is semi-loki installer related. how do you create a bash script
> that is self-extracting, then launches the extracted lokisetup prog?
> many commercial games do this, and loki did it all the time. how was
> this done?
> 
> -- chris (chris at luethy.net)
> 
> 
-- 
Stephane Peter
Software Engineer
Codehost, Inc.




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