Eclipse Oomph
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Is it supported to build an self-extracing installer for an Eclipse RCP application using Oomph? Currently the default Tycho packaging is a zip / tar file and it would be nice to allow clients to build an installer similar to the initial Oomph download for Windows for there own RCP application. My hope is that this could be integrated into a Tycho build, if it is supported. I checked the existing wiki pages but I failed to find information about it. |
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That's covered in this section: It's only supported for Windows because Linux users are smart and Mac users have *.dmg. The installer is actually quite a complicated example, because we build a bunch of variations of the product, with and without JRE, and with and without restrictions: 
The repackage-product.sh is the most relevant here. We repackage the zip as a tar because it was much easier to write native code to unpack a tar file than to unzip a zip file... This approach could be used to package up the final actual RCP application itself rather than an installer for it... |
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Thanks @merks, I will have a detailed look. |
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That's covered in this section:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#How_to_extract_the_constituent_parts_that_comprise_the_Windows_self-extracting_installer_executable
It's only supported for Windows because Linux users are smart and Mac users have *.dmg.
The installer is actually quite a complicated example, because we build a bunch of variations of the product, with and without JRE, and with and without restrictions:
The repackage-product.sh is the most relevant here. We repackage the zip as a tar because it was much easier to write native code to unpack a tar file than to unzip a zip file...
This approach could be used to package up the final actual RCP application itself…