How do I create a package for a CLI-only tool correctly?

[just-ero]

Hello,

I'm in contact with the Extism team and would like to upload the Extism CLI to winget. The download at https://github.com/extism/cli/releases/latest is of a .zip archive containing the CLI (extism.exe), the LICENSE, and a README.md file.

How do I correctly create a package that adds extism as a command to the PATH? Are the other two files an issue?

[mdanish-kh]

@just-ero You can use wingetcreate (can get it through winget install wingetcreate as well) and then do

wingetcreate new https://github.com/extism/cli/releases/download/v1.6.1/extism-v1.6.1-windows-amd64.zip

The tool will take you through a series of questions to help you author a package. For reference, I can give you some values that you can use to fill up while going through the command

PackageIdentifier -> Extism.CLI
PackageVersion -> 1.6.1
Is this a portable package? -> yes
What is the command alias of the portable package? -> extism