CEF Desktop Application Deployment on Windows

[JGK]

Is there a good way in which to package CEF desktop application files for deployment on Windows?
For example; a way to package all of the DLL's, HTML5, JS, etc. into a single EXE?
The main goal is to not expose the web related, non-binary files to the end user.

[magreenblatt]

You can place your web resources in a zip archive and use the CefZipArchive class to load them. The archive can be either a binary resource compiled in your application or a separate file on disk (choose any extension you like). The whole application can then be packaged as an executable or windows installer. See viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3564#p7135 for related conversation.

[JGK]

Great help. Thanks.

I am a little unclear as to the "scheme handler" and "manifset" mentioned in the viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3564#p7135 link.
For example, once I load my embedded ZIP resource and use CefZipReader, what is the stuff that actually
executes my index.html?

[magreenblatt]

Implement CefRequestHandler::GetResourceHandler to return a CefResourceHandler instance. A simple implementation is provided by CefStreamResourceHandler in combination with the CefStreamReader returned by CefZipArchive::File.

[JGK]

Thanks.
One more somewhat related question:
How do PAK files come into play?
Are they mainly used to house CEF internal resources and
not meant to be used for packaging application resources?

[magreenblatt]

Thanks.
One more somewhat related question:
How do PAK files come into play?
Are they mainly used to house CEF internal resources and
not meant to be used for packaging application resources?

Correct, they're created when CEF is compiled and contain CEF/Chromium/Blink resources. You can use the same format for your application resources if you want by downloading the tools and borrowing some code from Chromium, but there are probably better alternatives. More information at https://code.google.com/p/grit-i18n/.