I'm compiling/building a Node.js project into an .exe using Vercel's pkg but I'm trying to find where that executable file is during the program's runtime. To clarify, I want the Node.js program to know where the .exe file it is being run from is, to confirm it is correctly installed.
Context:
I cannot guarantee where the user has the .exe stored the first time they run it, but I want it to copy itself to the AppData folder so I can setup a Windows service from it, if it's not being run from there already. This in hopes of making a self-installing program, that doesn't require me to build an installed around it.
So on it's first run, I need the location of the .exe to be able to copy where I want. I might just have not picked it up, but I can't find an answer on either the pkg documentation or on another question here.
What I've Tried: I have tried process.cwd, process.pkg, __filename, __dirname and so on, but they all lead to the wrong thing, usually the snapshot folder of files.
When it comes to the main script it's as simple as finding it:
process.argv
From the Node.js documentation
Pkg from Vercel, is not an installer, its just a packager that will package node binaries and your code in a single exe.
You can follow this tutorial that shows how to make an installer it even enables you to set a path of where you want your exe to be installed
Currently, I'm using pkg module to convert it to a single exe file and it does only one main.js file, but on the root folder, it has multiple *.js files that are needed to run along with this. I want all packages and files to be executed with a single click without exposing the files or installing them on the machine.
I am a python developer and I made a program and packed it with inno setup.
inno setup automatically creates 2 files one of them a unins000.dat file and a unins000.exe file
when starting the .exe it will fully uninstall everything that you installed including the exe itself
now the 2 problems I have with this is:
it also creates a .dat file and I just want 1 exe to uninstall the entire program
the exe and dat files are both called unins000 and not just uninstall
(I have already tried renaming them but then the exe just doesn't work anymore)
so I found a way to disable the creation of these files
so now I am trying to create a .exe file that can delete the entire directory it is in including itself
I have started using python so I coded a script which deletes the entire dir the python script is in
but when I package it into an exe using pyinstaller it doesn't work anymore
How can I make an executable that when run deletes the directory where it is in including itself?
You can create exe that after start makes copy of itself into temp folder, then starts this copy and stops original process. Then the second process can delete whole folder. Then after some time OS should delete file left in temp folder on it's own.
I'm trying to modify a text file outside my nodejs executable that I made with nexe https://www.npmjs.com/package/nexe .
However my executable is unable to detect the file. They're both in the same directory. What do I do?
I want to keep all the python script files hidden and want to give executable file to the user.
Here's the screeenshot of the folder:
I am running it from the webroot directory of a project.I am going to run my project on the local host. In the Al3ViewerController I have given path to the main.py/ exe main file using shell_exec. But I need to keep the folder containing all the other python and DB files and I cannot do that for code security purpose, hence an exe file to run. could be --onefile / folder. I would want to remove that folder completely and just run from the executable file