Copyright (c) 2017-2019, The Monero Project
This is a Inno Setup script Monero.iss
plus some related files
that allows you to build a standalone Windows installer (.exe) for
the GUI wallet that comes with the Carbon Chamaeleon release of Monero.
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 lowering the "barrier to entry"
somewhat, especially for less technically experienced users of
Monero.
As the setup script in file Monero.iss has to list many files and directories of the GUI wallet package to install by name, this version of the script only works with exactly the GUI wallet for Monero release Carbon Chamaeleon that you find on the official download page.
It should however be easy to modify the script for future versions of the GUI wallet.
See LICENSE.
You can only build on Windows, and the result is always a Windows .exe file that can act as a standalone installer for the Carbon Chamaeleon GUI wallet.
Note that the installer build process is now reproducible / deterministic. For details check the file Deterministic.md.
The build steps in detail:
- Install Inno Setup. You can get it from here
- Get the Inno Setup script plus related files by cloning the whole monero-gui GitHub repository; you will only need the files in the installer directory
installers\windows
however. Depending on development state, additionally instead of simply usingmaster
you may have to checkout a specific branch, likerelease-v0.15
. - The setup script is written to take the GUI wallet files from a subdirectory named
bin
; so createinstallers\windows\bin
, get the zip file of the GUI wallet from here, unpack it somewhere, and copy all the files and subdirectories in the single subdirectory there (currently namedmonero-gui-0.15.0.0
) to thisbin
subdirectory - Start Inno Setup, load
Monero.iss
and compile it - The result i.e. the finished installer will be the file
mysetup.exe
in theinstallers\windows\Output
subdirectory