Understand that every ‘freezing’ application for Python will not really secure your code in any way. Every packaging system for a stand-alone executable Python ‘program’ will include a lot of the Python libraries and interpreter, which will make your program pretty large. That said, PyInstaller has done a nearly flawless job with everything I’ve thrown … Read more
MSI Customization: Customization of MSI files for installation is a built-in feature of the technology. there are two primary ways to customize the installation: Light Weight: You can set PUBLIC properties on the command line as a light weight form of customization, sample here and here, or… msiexec.exe /i setup.msi ADDLOCAL=”Core,Spell” SERIALKEY=”1234-1234″ /qn Heavy Weight: … Read more
The only way I could bundle a JRE was to use Launch4J and Inno Setup Compiler. First, create a jre6 folder (for example) in the same directory as your output file (.exe). Then copy the JRE from your system into your jre6 folder. Then you open Launch4J and set the Bundled JRE path – just … Read more
Quick Answer: foreach (var process in Process.GetProcessesByName(“whatever”)) { process.Kill(); } (leave off .exe from process name)
See this link: Java to Exe. It also explains what valid reasons are to do this, and when you should not. You can’t really encrypt binaries as the machine has to understand them. That said, an optimized executable is very difficult to decompile, while plain class files are ease. If you have an exe there … Read more
You should always avoid using system() because It is resource heavy It defeats security — you don’t know you it’s a valid command or does the same thing on every system, you could even start up programs you didn’t intend to start up. The danger is that when you directly execute a program, it gets … Read more
This will extract the .exe to a local file on the local disk. The file will be deleted when the Java program exists. import java.io.Closeable; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.OutputStream; import java.net.URI; import java.net.URISyntaxException; import java.net.URL; import java.security.CodeSource; import java.security.ProtectionDomain; import java.util.zip.ZipEntry; import java.util.zip.ZipException; import java.util.zip.ZipFile; public class … Read more
You don’t need a console. You can execute a process using a working directory: exec(String command, String[] envp, File dir) Executes the specified string command in a separate process with the specified environment and working directory. command is the location of the .exe envp can be null dir, is the directory of your .exe With … Read more
Solution Use warp-packer to create a exe out of the image and app launcher created by jlink. First: Copy warp-packer from this download link. Generate an image for your application using jlink. Then, create a single file application executable. This can be done with one command (running it on a single line and using your … Read more
You would use the GetFileVersionInfo API. See Using Version Information on the MSDN site. Sample: DWORD verHandle = 0; UINT size = 0; LPBYTE lpBuffer = NULL; DWORD verSize = GetFileVersionInfoSize( szVersionFile, &verHandle); if (verSize != NULL) { LPSTR verData = new char[verSize]; if (GetFileVersionInfo( szVersionFile, verHandle, verSize, verData)) { if (VerQueryValue(verData,”\\”,(VOID FAR* FAR*)&lpBuffer,&size)) { … Read more