Deployment / Build Windows - draft.
From terminal from root of app, run the deployment script
npm install
Then
npm run build:win
It creates a cache
and a build
folder. cache
is a folder used by deploy to keep the latest version needed to build and package the app, to avoid having to re-download it every time. While the packaged app ready for use can be found in the build
folder.
It packages the app as a .exe
file.
Note
If you are deploying/building from a Mac OSX computer for a windows machine as your target you might run into a compatibility issue.
You'll need to follow this tutorial to get your mac setup with wine
in order to be able to package the app for windows while on Mac.
Key steps are.
Install `brew if you don't have it already, skip if you do.
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Note: If Homebrew tells you that you need to agree to the Xcode license, you can do that by running:
sudo xcodebuild -license
Install xquartz
brew cask install xquartz
install wine
brew install wine
You should then be able to run to package the app.
npm run build:win
uninstalling wine
if you ever need to uninstal wine
brew uninstall wine