# Monero GUI Wallet Windows Installer # Copyright (c) 2017-2019, The Monero Project ## Introduction ## 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 Beryllium Bullet 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](Monero.iss) has to list every single file of the GUI wallet package to install by name, this version of the script only works with exactly the GUI wallet for Monero release *Boron Butterfly* that you find on [the official download page](https://getmonero.org/downloads/). It should however be easy to modify the script for future versions of the GUI wallet. ## License ## See [LICENSE](LICENSE). ## Building ## You can only build on Windows, and the result is always a Windows .exe file that can act as a standalone installer for the Boron Butterfly GUI wallet. The build steps in detail: 1. Install *Inno Setup*. You can get it from [here](http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php) 2. Get the Inno Setup script plus related files by cloning the whole [monero-gui GitHub repository](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui); you will only need the files in the installer directory `installers\windows` however. Depending on development state, additionally you may have to checkout a specific branch, like `release-v0.14`. 3. The setup script is written to take the GUI wallet files from a subdirectory named `bin`; so create `installers\windows\bin`, get the zip file of the GUI wallet from [here](https://getmonero.org/downloads/), unpack it somewhere, and copy all the files and subdirectories in the single subdirectory there (currently named `monero-gui-0.14.0.0`) to this `bin` subdirectory 4. Start Inno Setup, load `Monero.iss` and compile it 5. The result i.e. the finished installer will be the file `mysetup.exe` in the `installers\windows\Output` subdirectory