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Hello,
how can one compile a .bat script to a .exe file?
Help appreciated, thanks.

(_osd_) wrote:Hello,
how can one compile a .bat script to a .exe file?
Help appreciated, thanks.

This topic has been covered dozens of times on the forums.

A quick google search for bat to exe site:dostips.com will find you all the discussions about it on dostips.

Don't. Just... don't.

If you are doing this to obfuscate your code, just use a language that needs to be compiled. There's no valid reason to ever convert .bat to .exe.

Most probably you've already hit this -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2817 ... arty-tools ?
and this -> http://www.f2ko.de/en/b2e.php ?

though there's no way to 'compile' bat to exe - all the tools just create a temp file somewhere and and then call it.

By going to the %tmp% folder the batch file should be in a sub folder so compiling it only protects the code from people that don't know this.
Also I when I used an online compiler it added the line

To the top does anyone know why?

batchcc wrote:By going to the %tmp% folder the batch file should be in a sub folder so compiling it only protects the code from people that don't know this.
Also I when I used an online compiler it added the line

Code: Select all

Shift /0

To the top does anyone know why?

probably the call includes the name of the file and with shift /0 they strip the first argument.

npocmaka_ wrote:

batchcc wrote:By going to the %tmp% folder the batch file should be in a sub folder so compiling it only protects the code from people that don't know this.
Also I when I used an online compiler it added the line

Code: Select all

Shift /0

To the top does anyone know why?

probably the call includes the name of the file and with shift /0 they strip the first argument.

Thanks npocmaka