Fork of mickael9's gist: https://gist.github.com/mickael9/0b902da7c13207d1b86e
Usage: bitrock-unpacker.exe INSTALLER.EXE OUTPUT_DIR [--metakit-only]
Windows binaries are available at the releases section.
Get some tools.
- Install ActiveTcl-8.5 and at
install_path/bin/there is either base-tcl8.5-thread-win32-x86_64.exe or base-tcl8.5-thread-win32-ix86.exe -- https://www.activestate.com/products/tcl/downloads/ - sdx-20110317.kit -- https://code.google.com/archive/p/tclkit/downloads
- tclkitsh-8.5.9-win32.upx.exe or tclkitsh-8.5.9-win32-x86_64.exe -- https://code.google.com/archive/p/tclkit/downloads
Your build directory should look something like this. The unpacker script has been renamed to main.tcl.
$ tree .
.
├── base-tcl8.5-thread-win32-x86_64.exe
├── bitrock-unpacker.vfs
│ └── main.tcl
├── sdx-20110317.kit
└── tclkitsh-8.5.9-win32.upx.exe
When you run this line, an executable without extension is created in the current directory. Append ".exe" to the file and you're done.
.\tclkitsh-8.5.9-win32.upx.exe .\sdx-20110317.kit wrap bitrock-unpacker -runtime .\base-tcl8.5-thread-win32-ix86.exe
or
.\tclkitsh-8.5.9-win32-x86_64.exe .\sdx-20110317.kit wrap bitrock-unpacker -runtime .\base-tcl8.5-thread-win32-x86_64.exe
For more instructions, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/1383674.
My modifications to the original are licensed under CC0-1.0 license.
A couple lines had to be commented out for the script to run on Windows. For example, the line file attributes $destDir/$fileName -permissions $mode was throwing the following error.
bad option "-permissions": must be -archive, -hidden, -longname, -readonly, -shortname, or -system