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We previously tried to build the MXE Docker container on GitHub using an Action, but that really didn't work well and was a lot more trouble than it was worth. So this goes back to an offline build mechanism where I simply create an updated Docker image when needed and push that to Docker Hub. But this nearly hides the most interesting change here - we are finally switching to using 64bit binaries on Windows. It's 2020 and fewer than 1% of our users use 32bit Windows machines. We'll need to expand this to be able to have both a 32bit and a 64bit version of Subsurface for Windows. But for now, this solves the problem for 99% of our users. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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# Creating a Windows installer
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The scripts here help with cross building Subsurface and smtk2ssrf for Windows.
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The preferred method to create a Windows installer is to use our own docker
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image that has all the build components pre-assembled.
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All it takes is this:
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```
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cd /some/path/windows
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git clone git://github.com/subsurface/subsurface
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cd subsurface
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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docker run -v /some/path/windows:/__w subsurface/mxe-build-container:2.0 /bin/bash /__w/subsurface/packaging/windows/create-win-installer.sh
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```
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This will result in subsurface-VERSION.exe and smtk2ssrf-VERSION.exe to be created.
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