Creating and Expanding using cabinet.dll

[Proph]

I'm wanting to try to make an autoit script that utalizes cabinet.dll for creating and expanding .cab files or .??_ files. Has anyone messed around with this before? Can someone give me some tips or show me some code on how to use this dll? Would I use dllcall functions for this?

Thanks for any tips you can give me.

Here is some info I found about cabinet.dll

http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_1820.asp

Edited May 28, 2007 by Proph

[Vier]

I have found another dll for cab file. Perhaps it's more simple to use : http://www.lightship.co.jp/cab/index.html

[Zedna]

Simpler solution is to use some external console application.

For extract use:

RunWait('extract /y /e /l "' & @ScriptDir & '" file.cab',@ScriptDir,@SW_HIDE)

Look here about such MakeCab utility from XP

[flyingboz]

Simpler solution is to use some external console application.

simpler to code, but harder to maintain, you have to rely on fileinstall, and recompiling when the external tool is updated, etc.

Edited April 26, 2007 by flyingboz

[Zedna]

simpler to code, but harder to maintain, you have to rely on fileinstall, and recompiling when the external tool is updated, etc.

Then make some INI file with parametres for add,exctract and so on ...

and you needn't recompile your script.

Instead fileinstall just have external EXE with your script.

Edited April 26, 2007 by Zedna

[Proph]

Hmmm... i have searched for a while for a way. But I am not too good with dllcalls in autoit to know what to do.

I'm gonna try again and see what I come up with. Maybe I'll get somewhere with it. I do not want to use makecab or expand.exe anymore. Those are what I use currently. As far as I know makecab does not allow you to create cabs with sub dirs... but cabinet.dll does.

Edit:

I tried... but I get lost in this dllcall stuff.

I went ahead and added a doc to the thread as an attachment above. It has all info needed about cabinet.dll

Edited May 28, 2007 by Proph