Beginning with Cryptomator 1.6.0 Beta 1 we moved our installers to the main repo.

This repository contains the scripts to build a windows installer for Cryptomator. Checkout and start .\build.bat.

• recent JDK installed and JAVA_HOME environment variable set pointing to its location
• innoSetup

The branch you are currently viewing is a feature branch changing the default build goal from exe (using innosetup) to msi (using wix). This section documents the this change.

With calling the powershell script build.ps1 an msi-Installer can be build. It is not necessary to install the wix tool set beforehand, the script downloads and runs (not installs) a correct version. Current development status:

• the build msi artifact is branded under the name "MyTestApp" manufactured by "Cryptobot", such that it can be easily installed next to a normal Cryptomator installation and tested.
• the registry is not changed, except that an installation entry is added under HKCU
• Dokany or WinFSP are not included in the msi

Under .\resources\wix the necessary wix resource files are located. The file properties.wxi contains variables and definitions used in different wix resource files. The file Product.wxs contains the main "target", the Product tag. The wix file describing the files contained in the main application (mainApp.wxs) is not present but generated on the fly with the wix harvest tool heat. (see build.ps1) The file heatPostProcessing.xsl is a XSLT file which is used during the execution of heat to add include statements and remove components which are handled elsewhere.

The msi build process contains 4 steps:

1. Download the wix toolkit
2. Generate mainApp.wxs with the heat tool
3. Generate *.wixobj files with candle.exe
4. Generate the actual msi file with light.exe

Warning: Currently the different files needed to generate the msi (wxs, wxi, xsl) dependet heavily onto each other, hence changing variable names should be done with caution!

For the development, the documentation of wix can be found here: https://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/.