Hi all.
For those of you who can remember, a few years back I was involved in a
wee project that creates Patch files to update file. It did all type of
files not just exes. ITs was called Makeup32.
Anyway, I have not been involved in the development for a while, but I
needed to use it for a new project. It can make self extracting exe's
that automatically update the file for you, BUT a patch that might be
say 17kb requires a nearly 400KB stub file to so the SFX stuff.
Well, this is not good enought I thought. SO, what I have done is made
it so the SFX file is smaller.
What I do is embed the update patch file into a copy of the Stub file
and when it runs, it extracts the update file, then runs a dll which
does the actual updating. The dll is 178kb, so its not big.
TTo make the stub file, I have used the Key Object Library and the stub
exe, including some nice icons, is a MASSIVE 35kb !
So by the time you add say 17kb update patch to it, it works out at
52KB !
Its a major step forward for the tools I personally think, and so do
some of the others who help write the original tool.
FORTUNITLY, its all open source, so if anyone is interested, I can send
them the code etc.
I have been looking at other tools like Asta and the patch tool that
comes with the Project Jedi stuff, but none are as good as the makeup32
stuff...IMHO
If anyone is interested, drop me an email.
I will prob. out the code on my website for you to get it from there.
Jeremy
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