Block/remove Extract capability and pass through parameters to script. about ps2exe HOT 2 CLOSED

Hello Sheehand,

I am a big fan of free software, so PS2EXE itself is free. I am reluctant to make the compilations generated by PS2EXE closed source.

There may be situations where this makes sense. Please replace the expression s.StartsWith("-extract", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) in PS2EXE.ps1 with the expression false then the parameter -extract is gone for future compilations.

Greetings

Markus

PS: You can pass parameters to the generated EXE like you would do to the PowerShell script. The only restriction is that for all executables all parameters have the type STRING, if there is no implicit conversion for your parameter type you have to convert explicitly in your script.

PPS: Please do not put two requests into one issue.

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I'm not sure I follow you on on PS2EXE being free in relation to asking how to block easy extraction of the imbedded PS1 file.

The reason for asking for this is some users try to be too smart for their own good and part of the reason for handing them an EXE file in the first place is so they can't shoot themselves in the foot by messing with a script. I see online there are ways to still extract a script from an EXE (even w/o the -Extract parameter) if they really wanted to go that far, I just didn't want to hand them an easy switch to do it.

I will try the script modification of $False, thank you for that help.

As for the two requests, I thought they were related as they were both parameters being passed to the EXE. My apologies for breaking protocol here by lumping them together. I think I follow you on the second part but if not I will spin up a new issue just for that.

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