How-to: Create a Silent Installer with AutoHotkey and Publish it on Chocolatey
Supposed there is a portable Windows application without an installer and uninstaller, how to create them back? In today's post, we will explore one way to build a Setup.exe using AutoHotkey (AHK), with additional compression of 7-Zip applied to the Setup.exe and remaining files of the portable application for maximum compression, and then wrap it with an outer unattended installer, turning a portable application into an installable one while being suitable also for silent deployment. The application example, i.e. the application for which a setup is created is AeroZoom . While some terminologies are specific to AeroZoom, the general concepts should apply to other software. // ⭐1️⃣ to be built: outer unattended installer written in AHK AeroZoom_Unattended_Installer.exe │ │ // 2️⃣ to be built: 7-Zip self-extracting archive │ └───AeroZoom_7-Zip_SFX.exe │ ├───AeroZoom // portable app example │ │ AeroZoom.