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Building the installer for Windows

Mike Hucka edited this page Apr 17, 2019 · 5 revisions

Since the Caltech circulation desk staff are all running Windows-based computers, Hold It! currently only has configurations for creating installers for Windows. Here is the procedure to follow:

  1. Run make ABOUT.html on a macOS or Linux system. This converts the README.md file into a self-contained ABOUT.html file with inlined graphics. It requires both pandoc and inliner, hence the need to run the command on a Mac or Linux system.
  2. Next, build the Windows application normally.
  3. Start up Inno Setup.
  4. Open dist\installers\windows\holdit_innosetup_script.iss in Inno Setup.
  5. Run the command BuildCompile in Inno Setup.

The result of these steps should be an installer program left in the dist subdirectory.

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