selfextracting archive with 7zip via cmd.exe

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Hello, I downloaded 7za.exe and did this to compress a file.exe:

7za.rar a -mx9 archive file.exe

Now I want to create a selfextracting archive (.exe), so I tried this:

7za.rar a -mx9 -sfx archive file.exe

But I get the following error message:

can't find specified sfx module

Can anyone please tell me how to make a selfextracting .exe with 7zip via cmd.exe? Thanks!

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