How to build the desktop client on Windows

General

• Grab a cup of coffee
• Download the Windows VM: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

Install list

• OpenSSL: https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/
• zlib: https://github.com/maxirmx/Dist_zlib
• qtkeychain: https://github.com/frankosterfeld/qtkeychain
• Visual Studio
• Git bash (it comes with Git)
• Png2Icon - you need to use this version: https://github.com/hiiamok/png2ImageMagickICO

CMake options

For the desktop client (Release/Debug):

cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\..\install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

For qtkeychain:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\qt5keychain

And then (Release/Debug):

cmake --build . --config Release --target install

DLL's

• To put all dependencies together: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-deployment.html

Missing dll's and files even after running windeployqt

• Qt5CoreD.dll (C:\Qt\Qt5.11.1\msvc2017_64\bin)
• MSVCP140D.dll (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.14.26405\debug_nonredist\x64\Microsoft.VC141.DebugCRT)
• VCRUNTIME140D.dll (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.14.26405\debug_nonredist\x64\Microsoft.VC141.DebugCRT)
• ocsync.dll (nc install path/bin/nextcloud)
• libcrypto-1_1-x86.dll (C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin)
• ucrtbased.dll (C:\Windows/System32)
• C:\qt5keychain\bin\qt5keychain.dll needs to be copied to C:\Qt\5.11.1\msvc2017_64\bin
• MSVCR120.dll (C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin)
• sync-exclude.lst (C:\Users\IEUser\Desktop\nc\install\config\Nextcloud)
• had to fetch the extra dll's from https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/openssl-1.0.1h-x64_86-win64.zip (libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll)

NSIS

• Install NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download/

NSIS plugins to install

• http://nsis.sourceforge.net/UAC_plug-in
• http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsProcess_plugin

To upload builds

• https://success.tanaza.com/s/article/How-to-use-SCP-command-on-Windows

Git submodules

• shell_integration

SSH Agent

We are floowing this instruction:

• https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases/#platform-windows (see .bashrc file in the repo)
• There is also a ~/.ssh/config file with:

Host download.nextcloud.com
  ForwardAgent yes

Task Scheduler

• We are using it to schedule the build - the task is exported to the xml DailyBuilds_v01.xml.

ENV VARS TO SET

• OPENSSL_PATH (openssl path installation)
• P12_KEY_PASSWORD (certificate key password used to sign the installer)
• PROJECT_PATH (nextcloud source code path)
• QT_PATH (qt installation path)
• SFTP_SERVER (server url)
• SFTP_USER (server user)
• VCINSTALLDIR (Visual Code installation path)
• Png2ico_EXECUTABLE (png2ico installation path)
• QTKEYCHAIN_LIBRARY (path-to-qt5keychain-folder/lib/qt5keychain.lib)
• QTKEYCHAIN_INCLUDE_DIR (path-to-qt5keychain-folder/include/qt5keychain)
• OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (path-to-openssl-folder)
• OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR (path-to-openssl-folder/include)
• OPENSSL_LIBRARIES (path-to-openssl-folder/lib)

To create the installer

Run:

./build.bat 

build.bat will call nextcloud.nsi that in the end will call upload.bat after signing the installer.