Embedding an exe in a program [Answered]

I know this sounds super sus, but I wanna write an installer for a CLI tool which just copies an executable to a specified directory and then adds that directory to the user's PATH. My question is mainly how I should embed the executable. I know embedded resources exist and how to use them, although would that be the best option to do this?

I'd go with an embedded resource -- there aren't really many options here

fair

Was just wondering if there was anything else

In my experience, antiviruses get very upset when you embed executables; if you have problems with that, it might be best to just have the user extract a zip containing the installer and executable
(The 'install' could then be done via batch file to further keep antivirus off your back)

7-zip has a lot of stuff to create customised self-extracting archives (SFX). I think that might include env vars? The docs are all pretty old, but https://sourceforge.net/projects/s-zipsfxbuilder/ has a "SetEnvironment" tab...

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