innoextract - A tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using wine. innoextract currently supports installers created by Inno Setup 1.2.10 to 6.2.2.

In addition to standard Inno Setup installers, innoextract also supports some modified Inno Setup variants including Martijn Laan's My Inno Setup Extensions 1.3.10 to 3.0.6.1 as well as GOG.com's Inno Setup-based game installers. innoextract is able to unpack Wadjet Eye Games installers (to play with AGS), Arx Fatalis patches (for use with Arx Libertatis) as well as various other Inno Setup executables.

innoextract is available under the ZLIB license - see the LICENSE file.

See the website for Linux packages.

Contact

Website

Author: Daniel Scharrer

Dependencies

• Boost 1.37 or newer
• liblzma from xz-utils (optional)
• iconv (optional, either as part of the system libc, as is the case with glibc and uClibc, or as a separate libiconv)

For Boost you will need the headers as well as the iostreams, filesystem, date_time, system and program_options libraries. Older Boost version may work but are not actively supported. The boost iostreams library needs to be build with zlib and bzip2 support.

While innoextract can be built without liblzma by manually setting -DUSE_LZMA=OFF, it is highly recommended and you won't be able to extract most installers created by newer Inno Setup versions without it.

To build innoextract you will also need CMake 2.8 and a working C++ compiler, as well as the development headers for liblzma and boost.

See the Website for operating system-specific instructions.

Compile and install

To compile innoextract, run:

$ mkdir -p build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

To install the binaries system-wide, run as root:

# make install

The default build settings are tuned for users - if you plan to make changes to Arx Libertatis you should append the -DDEVELOPER=1 option to the cmake command to enable debug output and fast incremental builds.

Build options:

Option	Default	Description
USE_ARC4	ON	Build ARC4 decryption support.
USE_LZMA	ON	Use liblzma.
WITH_CONV	not set	The charset conversion library to use. Valid values are iconv, win32 and builtin¹. If not set, a library appropriate for the target platform will be chosen.
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE	Release	Set to Debug to enable debug output.
DEBUG	OFF²	Enable debug output and runtime checks.
DEBUG_EXTRA	OFF	Expensive debug options.
SET_WARNING_FLAGS	ON	Adjust compiler warning flags. This should not affect the produced binaries but is useful to catch potential problems.
SET_NOISY_WARNING_FLAGS	OFF	Enable warnings with false positives many cases that still need to be fixed.
SET_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS	ON	Adjust compiler optimization flags.
CXX_STD_VERSION	2017	Maximum C++ standard version to enable.
USE_DYNAMIC_UTIMENSAT	OFF	Dynamically load utimensat(2) if not available at compile time.
USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF³	Turns on static linking for all libraries, including -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++. You can also use the individual options below:
LZMA_USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF⁴	Statically link liblzma.
Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF⁴	Statically link Boost. See also FindBoost.cmake.
ZLIB_USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF⁴	Statically link libz. (used via Boost)
BZip2_USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF⁴	Statically link libbz2. (used via Boost)
iconv_USE_STATIC_LIBS	OFF⁴	Statically link libiconv.
STRICT_USE	OFF	Abort if there are missing optional dependencies.
DEVELOPER	OFF	Enable build options suitable for developers⁵.
FASTLINK	OFF⁶	Optimize for link speed.
USE_LTO	ON²	Use link-time code generation.

1. The builtin charset conversion only supports Windows-1252 and UTF-16LE. This is normally enough for filenames, but custom message strings (which can be included in filenames) may use arbitrary encodings.
2. Enabled automatically if CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is set to Debug.
3. Under Windows, the default is ON.
4. Default is ON if USE_STATIC_LIBS is enabled.
5. Currently this and enables DEBUG and FASTLINK for faster incremental builds and improved debug output, unless those options have been explicitly specified by the user.
6. Enabled automatically if DEVELOPER is enabled.
7. Disabled automatically if SET_OPTIMIZATION_FLAGS is disabled or FASTLINK is enabled.

Install options:

Option	Default	Description
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX	/usr/local	Where to install innoextract.
CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR	bin	Location for binaries (relative to prefix).
CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR	share	Location for data files (relative to prefix).
CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR	${DATAROOTDIR}/man	Location for man pages (relative to prefix).

Set options by passing -D<option>=<value> to cmake.

Run

To extract a setup file to the current directory run:

$ innoextract <file>

A list of available options can be retrieved using

$ innoextract --help

Documentation is also available as a man page:

$ man 1 innoextract

Limitations

• There is no support for extracting individual components and limited support for filtering by name.

• Included scripts and checks are not executed.

• The mapping from Inno Setup variables like the application directory to subdirectories is hard-coded.

• Names for data slice/disk files in multi-file installers must follow the standard naming scheme.

A perhaps more complete, but Windows-only, tool to extract Inno Setup files is innounp.

Extracting Windows installer executables created by programs other than Inno Setup is out of the scope of this project. Some of these can be unpacked by the following programs:

• cabextract

• unshield

Disclaimer

This project is in no way associated with Inno Setup or jrsoftware.org.