# Monero Core + GUI Wallet Beta 2 Windows Installer # Copyright (c) 2014-2017, 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 Monero GUI Wallet Beta 2. 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 lower 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 Beta 2 that you find on [the official download page](https://getmonero.org/downloads/). But of course it will 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 GUI Wallet Beta 2. 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-core](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-core) repository; you will only need the files in the installer directory `installers\windows` however 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 Beta 2 from [here](https://getmonero.org/downloads/), unpack it somewhere, and copy all the files and subdirectories in the `monero-gui-0.10.3.1-beta2` directory 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