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| author | René Brunner <rbrunner@dreamshare.ch> | 2017-06-11 08:28:54 +0200 |
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| committer | René Brunner <rbrunner@dreamshare.ch> | 2017-06-11 08:28:54 +0200 |
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GUI Wallet Beta 2 installer for Windows, initial version
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diff --git a/installers/windows/README.md b/installers/windows/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..73cc38c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/installers/windows/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# Monero Core + GUI Wallet Beta 2 Windows Installer #
+
+Copyright (c) 2014-2017, The Monero Project
+
+## Introduction ##
+
+This is a *Inno Setup* script `Monero.iss` plus some related files that
+allows you to build a standalone Windows installer (.exe) for the
+Monero GUI Wallet Beta 2.
+
+This turns the GUI Wallet into a more or less standard Windows program,
+by default installed into a subdirectory of `C:\Program Files`, a
+program group with some icons in the *Start* menu, and automatic
+uninstall support. It helps lower the "barrier to entry" somewhat,
+especially for less technically experienced users of Monero.
+
+As the setup script in file [Monero.iss](Monero.iss) has to list every
+single file of the GUI Wallet package to install by name, this version
+of the script only works with exactly the GUI Beta 2 that you find on
+[the official download page](https://getmonero.org/downloads/).
+
+But of course it will be easy to modify the script for future versions
+of the GUI Wallet.
+
+## License ##
+
+See [LICENSE](LICENSE).
+
+## Building ##
+
+You can only build on Windows, and the result is always a Windows .exe
+file that can act as a standalone installer for the GUI Wallet Beta 2.
+
+The build steps in detail:
+
+1. Install *Inno Setup*. You can get it from [here](http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php)
+2. Get the Inno Setup script plus related files by cloning the whole [monero-core](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core) repository; you will only need the files in the installer directory `installers\windows` however
+3. The setup script is written to take the GUI Wallet files from a subdirectory named `bin`; so create `installers\windows\bin`, get the zip file of the GUI Wallet Beta 2 from [here](https://getmonero.org/downloads/), unpack it somewhere, and copy all the files and subdirectories in the `monero-gui-0.10.3.1-beta2` directory to this `bin` subdirectory
+4. Start Inno Setup, load `Monero.iss` and compile it.
+5. The result i.e. the finished installer will be the file `mysetup.exe` in the `installers\windows\Output` subdirectory
+
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