Inno Setup self-extracting archive

File Format
Name	Inno Setup self-extracting archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Inno Setup self-extracting archive
Extension(s)	.exe

Inno Setup self-extracting archive is the self-extracting archive format generated by the Inno Setup installation software for Windows. It is based on PE executable format.

innoextract examples

Extract example.exe to a directory named example:

 innoextract --extract example.exe --output-dir example

Extract example2.exe using Japanese codepage, and use Japan's timezone as file timestamps, into example2 directory:

 TZ=Asia/Japan innoextract --extract example2.exe --codepage 932 --timestamp local --output-dir example2

Extract example2.exe using Japanese codepage, Japan's timezone as timestamps, and files with Japanese localizations into example2-ja directory:

 TZ=Asia/Japan innoextract --extract example2.exe --codepage 932 --timestamp local --output-dir example2-ja --language ja

Same as above but for English localizations, and into example2-en directory instead:

 TZ=Asia/Japan innoextract --extract example2.exe --codepage 932 --timestamp local --output-dir example2-en --language en

Software

• Inno Setup
• innoextract
• innounp - Inno Setup Unpacker

Sample files

• dexvert samples — archive/innoSetupInstaller