Extracting files from a MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive on Linux
TL;DR
Extract files from a Nullsoft self-extracting archive using, 7z
:
7z e myapp.exe
Details
Given a Nullsoft self-extracting archive file:
jemurray@shell:~$ file myapp.exe
myapp.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows, Nullsoft Installer self-extracting archive
Install the extraction software on Linux, in this example Debian:
sudo apt install p7zip-full
Extract files from the .exe
:
jemurray@shell:~$ 7z e myapp.exe
7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,1 CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHz (50657),ASM,AES-NI)
Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 49824644 bytes (48 MiB)
Extracting archive: myapp.exe
--
Path = myapp.exe
Type = Nsis
Physical Size = 49824644
Method = Deflate
Solid = -
Headers Size = 102546
Embedded Stub Size = 57856
SubType = NSIS-3 Unicode BadCmd=11
Everything is Ok
Files: 9
Size: 50033887
Compressed: 49824644
Extracted files:
jemurray@shell:~$ ls -al
total 97540
drwxr-xr-x 2 jemurray jemurray 4096 Dec 13 13:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 jemurray jemurray 4096 Dec 13 13:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 49323645 Dec 4 17:47 app-64.7z
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 6656 Dec 13 13:22 nsExec.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 434176 Dec 13 13:22 nsis7z.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 4608 Dec 13 13:22 nsProcess.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 49824644 Dec 13 13:22 myapp.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 9216 Dec 13 13:22 SpiderBanner.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 102400 Dec 13 13:22 StdUtils.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 12288 Dec 13 13:22 System.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 137826 Dec 4 17:47 'Uninstall myapp.exe'
-rw-r--r-- 1 jemurray jemurray 3072 Dec 13 13:22 WinShell.dll