Windows NSIS installer

[peterl94]

The rc2 installer work fine for me.

So are you saying that C:/Users/Chris/Desktop/GitHub/Release-dist-x86 doesn't exist?

[sgrogan]

Yes!, Don't know how it's possible.
Manually created and copying as a work around, but I have no clue?

[sgrogan]

x86 installer is up at the same link. I had to copy area.pyd to bin to pass the self tests. lib directory problems as above.
I know this is not right, but is it "good enough"? Probably not, but I can't seem to find the difference in the process.

[wmayer]

Is there a trick to building the INSTALL project with VS2008?

You have to trigger it manually. Select the INSTALL target in the Solution Explorer and go to Project Only > Build Only INSTALL in the context-menu.

[ruuaitro]

5. Ran BuildNSISInstaller.bat in [build dir]/src/WindowsInstaller (probably commented out the lines running the version script)

Note: in [build dir]/bin I only had the release versions of the libraries. I assume the installer script has the necessary file filters, but I didn't confirm that.

HI peterl ,

Thanks for this tutorial ,
but its not clear for me ;

please help to create installer freecad ?

[sgrogan]

please help to create installer freecad ?

Hey ruuaitro,
Maybe you could tell us what you tried. We all seem to get it working a little different. I can confirm that you need to copy the dependencies manually, but how and where you do this depends on what you've done so far.

[Kunda1]

relevant:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23911
issue #2056

[ruuaitro]

I try to use this lines for desktop shortcut in x64, but don`t create that . even if I use current

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setShellVarContext all
	StrCpy $1 $DESKTOP

put in over startmenu shortcut lines :

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#Create Desktop Shortcut
	CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\${FULLNAME}\${APPNAME}.lnk" "$INSTDIR\bin\VareshCAD.exe" "" ""

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# Remove Desktop launcher
	Delete "$DESKTOP\${FULLNAME}\${APPNAME}.lnk"

after install package :