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| author |  Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> | 2020-09-28 10:33:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org> | 2020-09-28 10:38:08 -0700 |
| commit | 63cc2d864fe8e5c776f3675067100a907a45b2f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 06909a30521c7c8c83091f2a7206367d54d31bf4 /packaging/windows/README.md | |
| parent | 6835f03bae324d45fb5f6970beb26b781bfb8c24 (diff) | |
| download | subsurface-63cc2d864fe8e5c776f3675067100a907a45b2f3.tar.gz | |
build-system: document how to create a Windows installer
These are the instructions that I use at this point.
Removed a long obsolete script - it's been many, many years since that last was
useful (it was still using qmake to try to build Subsurface)
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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diff --git a/packaging/windows/README.md b/packaging/windows/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..803df2c50 --- /dev/null +++ b/packaging/windows/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Creating a Windows installer + +The scripts here help with cross building Subsurface and smtk2ssrf for Windows. + +The preferred method to create a Windows installer is to use our own docker +image that has all the build components pre-assembled. +All it takes is this: + +``` +cd /some/path/windows +git clone git://github.com/subsurface/subsurface +cd subsurface +git submodule init +git submodule update +docker run -v /some/path/windows:/__w subsurface/mxe-build-container:1.1 /bin/bash /__w/subsurface/packaging/windows/create-win-installer.sh +``` + +This will result in subsurface-VERSION.exe and smtk2ssrf-VERSION.exe to be created. |