self-extractable-installer-example

This example shows how to build a self-extractable Installer on Linux.

├── app               <== The app directory containing the original contents
│   └── run_app.sh   <== The entrypoint of our app
├── app_stub.sh       <== The stub responsible for extracting and running the app
├── build.sh          <== Build helper
├── Makefile          <== Makefile for build automation
└── README.md         <== Documentation of this repo

Build

./build.sh or make build

What does it do?

• Creates app.tar.gz from the app directory, and
• Creates selfextract_app.bin from app_stub.sh and app.tar.gz in that order

Run

sh selfextract_app.bin

How does it work?

• Extracts app from app.tar.gz into a TEMP directory, and
• Runs run_app.sh