#2533 Create standalone bundles for windows

[Ali Örgey]

Hey there Igor,

first of all, thank you for your work!

I have a suggestion, since I find it confusing to understand, what each version of 7zip supports for each version. Maybe it would be nice to have windows bundles (standalone console versions) for each archictecture. You could maybe compress it into a small .7z package.

so you would have something like "7z2409-win-x64.7z" for x64, "7z2409-win-arm64.7z" for arm64 and "7z2409-win-x86.7z" for x86. Because I'd be highly interested in those bundles and I think others would be too.

I found it confusing to find out, that 7zr only extracts 7z and xz files and then I thought 7za.exe would be the right executable, only to find out in a ticket, that I need to extract "7z.exe" and "7z.dll". To have the full support for 7zip decompression.

Regards,
Ali.

[Igor Pavlov]

It's not a bug.
Why do you need standalone and for what archive types?
Why you don't want to use 7z.exe with 7z.dll instead?

[Ali Örgey]

Sorry, I posted it into the wrong section. I meant to post it maybe into the feature requests.

I want to use 7z.exe with 7z.dll, but maybe you can make some small bundles for each archictecture, which you can download from the site?

I found it confusing to use 7zr.exe to unpack 7z-2409-x64.exe and extract 7z.exe and 7z.dll.

I want to extract .msi, .exe files for example.

[Ali Örgey]

and since 7z.exe and its 7z.dll supports a big range of archive types, why not make small bundles of 7z.exe and 7z.dll for windows and every arch?

[Igor Pavlov]

7z-2409-x64.exe bundle is small enough already.
what problem with extracting 7z-2409-x64.exe?
why 7z2409-win-x64.7z is much better than 7z2409-x64.exe for you?