Open Source Windows Application Packaging Software

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip works in Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2022 / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. And there is command line version for Linux and macOS. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license with GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check the license for details.

IsoCreator (could also be called Folder-to-ISO or Directory-to-ISO) C#.NET 2.0 application which creates ISO 9660 Joliet CD images from a given folder or volume. Can also create ISO with virtual files, given a tree representing a directory structure.

This command line interface enables you to package your Node.js project into an executable that can be run even on devices without Node.js installed. Make a commercial version of your application without sources. Make a demo/evaluation/trial version of your app without sources. Instantly make executables for other platforms (cross-compilation). Make some kind of self-extracting archive or installer. No need to install Node.js and npm to run the packaged application. No need to download hundreds of files via npm install to deploy your application. Deploy it as a single file. Put your assets inside the executable to make it even more portable. Test your app against new Node.js version without installing it. pkg was created for use within containers and is not intended for use in serverless environments. For those using ZEIT Now, this means that there is no requirement to use pkg in your projects as the benefits it provides are not applicable to the platform.

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to encrypt archives.

Reads and writes archives used in many popular games. Great for mod development and game translations. Supports over 5700 games, with more games added through small plugins. Also shows file previews and converts them to different formats.

IMPORTANT NEWS: UPX has moved to GitHub https://upx.github.io ========================

Zip-Ada is a library for .zip archives. Full sources are in Ada and are unconditionally portable. Input and output can be any stream (file, buffer,...) for archive creation as well as data extraction. Task safe and endian-neutral. More information on: http://unzip-ada.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zipada Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada/

It supports files and folders multi-compression (UPX, ZIP, 7Z) and archives extraction (several formats). It includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, self-extracting archive creation, encryption/decryption, external compressors and much more.

Jar Installer is a java based program for creating self-extracting installation packages through a GUI. Just select your files, logo and create a jar file which can be double clicked for installation.

bfs2pack is a packer and unpacker for flatout2 bfs archives. It comes with a small gui (ready to use) and a commandline interface. Moved to github: https://github.com/synopia/bfs2pack

Moved to GitHub.com/gdraheim/zziplib/ The ZZIPlib provides read access on ZIP-archives. The library uses only the patent-free compression-algorithms supported by Zlib. It provides functions that transparently access files being either real files or zipped files, both with the same filepath

AZip is a free Zip Archive Manager with unique features such as: built-in content Search, smart archive Update, archive Recompression. The goal is to keep the user interface as simple as possible and bother the user the least possible with options or useless gadgets. More details and screenshots on the AZip Web site: http://azip.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/azip Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/azip

A win32 GUI shell for the UPX executable packer.

ReHash is an easy-to-use console-based hash calculation tool written in C++. It supports many algorithms and output formats and it can be fully configured using some of the many command-line arguments which can be passed to the tool.

*NOTE* I am currently rewriting this and hope to have something in a couple of weeks. It can be frustrating to manually reinstall Firefox with all its extensions, themes, personas and other add-ons. Even for those administrators who need to deploy Firefox on hundreds of network computers will find it a cumbersome task to do it manually. To assist you in building a silent Firefox installer with all of the settings preset, here is FFaM, aka Firefox Addon Maker. This is an application written in C# that will create a silent installer. The installer can be created in Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit. The installers can be installed in Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit. You can create an installer with all of your settings intact, an installer with no modifications. Or, anything in between. You can create an installer from one of the three versions posted by Mozilla, the Current version, the Previous version and the Beta version.

An advanced management and packaging utility for Oblivion (TES4) mods/enhancements.

BatExe is an open source program that enables you to convert an arbitrary set of data files and a batch script into a single Microsoft Windows executable.

At this point this project is mainly wpkg which is a replica of dpkg and apt-get that works under Microsoft Windows and Unices. Since version 0.7.0 it works very nicely as it includes most of the important functionality of dpkg (i.e. most everything except dselect functions.) Otherwise, the Unix GNU Windows is expected to be a large set of packages that wpkg can handle. Packages of all the software available under MinGW and GnuWin32 so you can painlessly build a complete Unix like environment under Microsoft Windows.

**Burn To The Brim** is a highly efficient archiving utility designed to solve the classic subset-sum (bin packing) optimization challenge. It intelligently selects and groups files and directories (documents, high-fidelity media, or raw back-ups) to optimally fill recordable Blu-Rays, USB drives or custom-capacity storage drives. By recursively scanning your designated folders, BTTB matches item sizes to your media capacity, finding a near-perfect selection in milliseconds and an absolute perfect packing configuration in just a few seconds. Burn to the Brim 4.0.0 introduces state-of-the-art machine learning semantic coherence logic to BTTB's classical packing algorithms.

PimpBot is a graphical interface, which let's the user create a Nullsoft Installer (NSIS) for various Winamp plugins with just a few mouse-clicks.

A free file splitting tool that cuts large files into smaller parts and a merge-script which you can copy to otherwise-too-small memory sticks etc and then put them together on the target computer.

The GK3 Tools project is a collection of tools and utilities useful for viewing and modifying the Gabriel Knight 3 data files.

A simply installer that based on zlib 1.2.1 as the compression library. Target OS - Win32, language - C++ (MS VC++ 6). It has a simple script language (like MSDOS batch language) and uninstaller. Can write to registry and access to environment variables.

Dir2Encrypt encrypt a folder with privat files and subfolders into a single password protected archive file. The archive file can be a zip file or a self extracting exe file. Microsoft Net Framwork 2 has to be installed.

Lift Off Java Installer is an installer for Java applications.