Free program to convert .bat or .vbs to .exe

[PhoenixTekBC]

Anyone know of a free program that will convert VB or batch file scripts to .exe files? EXEScript will do it but it costs money. I'm looking for something free. Anyone know of anything?

[Colmaca]

Read this and see if its what you require, it looks like xp already has it so its free.

I'v never used it so I don't know if its what you want

http://renegadetech.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-convert-bat-file-or-vbs-file.html

[PhoenixTekBC]

Nope, I tried that and it's basically a glorified .zip file... I need something that completely converts scripts (.vbs, .js, or .bat) to .exe's.

[oracle128]

Why would you need to? They're scripting languages for reason - because they're not compiled programming languages. It's a niche market with little real-world requirement, which is why you're only likely to come across paid applications, or resorting to "glorified .zip files" like IExpress makes.

That said, I did manage to find a couple free apps for you, one for .bat, one for .vbs, both by the same author.
http://www.f2ko.de/b2e.html
http://www.f2ko.de/v2e.html

[PhoenixTekBC]

BECAUSE, our new managed services platform can only run .exe scheduled scripts, so I have to convert what I got to .exe

[smurfy]

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
scripts can also be compiled into stand-alone executables with Aut2Exe.
You may be able to write a simple autiIT script to call your existing .bats or .vbs files and this may work in the environment, otherwise you may have to re-write your scripts in the AutoIT language - which is better than you'll get in a BAT, but less featured than VBs.

[oracle128]

BECAUSE, our new managed services platform can only run .exe scheduled scripts, so I have to convert what I got to .exeIn that case, cmd.exe, the command-line interpreter, and cscript.exe, the command-line-based VBScript interpreter (or wscript, the GUI-based VBS interpreter) should be called instead, passing the name of your script for each one as a parameter.