MSBuild and 7Zip SFX

The following allows you to package up your build output into a SFX file with custom properties that appear when someone right clicks the SFX and chooses properties.

Useful if you need to create a zip that can be signed but want your company/product information to appear on the SFX.EXE.

<Target Name="AfterCompileSolution" Condition="'$(Solution)'=='$(examplesol_Root)\examplesol.sln' And'$(BuildBreak'!='true'">

    <PropertyGroup>

      <rcfile>7za.rc</rcfile>

      <resfile>resource.res</resfile>

      <rccontent>

        1 VERSIONINFO

        FILEVERSION 4,65,0,0

        PRODUCTVERSION 4,65,0,0

        FILEOS 0x40004

        FILETYPE 0x1

        {

        BLOCK &quot;StringFileInfo&quot;

        {

        BLOCK &quot;040904B0&quot;

        {

        VALUE &quot;CompanyName&quot;, &quot;Example Company&quot;

        VALUE &quot;FileDescription&quot;, &quot;Example Update&quot;

        VALUE &quot;FileVersion&quot;, &quot;1.0&quot;

        VALUE &quot;InternalName&quot;, &quot;Example.exe&quot;

        VALUE &quot;LegalCopyright&quot;, &quot;Copyright (c) 2013 Example Company&quot;

        VALUE &quot;OriginalFilename&quot;, &quot;Example.exe&quot;

        VALUE &quot;ProductName&quot;, &quot;Example Update&quot;

        VALUE &quot;ProductVersion&quot;, &quot;$(ExampleVersion)&quot;

        }

        }

        BLOCK &quot;VarFileInfo&quot;

        {

        VALUE &quot;Translation&quot;, 0x0409 0x04B0

        }

        }

      </rccontent>

      <installerexepath>$(examplesol_Root)\Example\Product Configuration 1\Release\DiskImages\DISK1</installerexepath>

      <installerexe>Example.exe</installerexe>

    </PropertyGroup>
    <Message Text="Generating RC Script" />

    <WriteLinesToFile File="$(examplesol_Root)\$(rcfile)" Lines="$(rccontent)" Overwrite="true" />
    <Message Text="Compile Resource file from Resource Script" />

    <Exec ContinueOnError="false" WorkingDirectory="$(examplesol_Root)"

          Command="&quot;$(winSDKPath)\bin\rc.exe&quot; /fo &quot;.\$(resfile)&quot; &quot;.\$(rcfile)&quot;" />
    <Message Text="Move update file" />

    <Move SourceFiles="$(installerexepath)\$(installerexe)" DestinationFolder="$(examplesol_Root)\Example\" />
    <Message Text="Zipping installer for Update" />

    <!-- Use full paths for files so dir struct is not preserved-->

    <Exec ContinueOnError="false" WorkingDirectory="$(examplesol_Root)"

          Command="&quot;$(Root)\BuildTools\7zip\7za.exe&quot; a -sfx  &quot;.\$(installerexe)&quot; &quot;.\Manifest.xml&quot; &quot;.\Example\$(installerexe)&quot;" />
    <Message Text="Applying Resource changes to sfx file" />

    <Exec ContinueOnError="false" WorkingDirectory="$(examplesol_Root)"

          Command="$(Root)\BuildTools\reshacker\ResHacker.exe -delete $(installerexe),$(installerexe),versioninfo,1," />

    <Exec ContinueOnError="false" WorkingDirectory="$(examplesol_Root)"

          Command="$(Root)\BuildTools\reshacker\ResHacker.exe -add $(installerexe),$(installerexe),$(resfile),,," />
    <Message Text="Move log file to dir" />

    <Move SourceFiles="$(Root)\BuildTools\reshacker\reshacker.log" DestinationFolder="$(examplesol_Root)\" />
    <OnError ExecuteTargets="UndoCheckout"/>

  </Target>