Re: Windows Installer Xml Visual Studio 2019
Rapheal Charlton
The goal of this section is to set up a build environment for developingand testing the Nextcloud Desktop client. If you just want to use theNextcloud Desktop client without developing and testing it, you shoulddownload the latest stable build instead.
The steps listed here have been tested multiple times and should allow youto build the client and/or the documentation with not warnings or errors.These instructions should be current with the version, 3.7, of theNextcloud Client with which it ships. If you are using the most recent versionof these instructions, and you run into errors or warnings with the latestcode from the repository, please open a GitHub Issue to let us know so we candocument a workaround or fix any underlying problems.
When cloning a GitHub repository, you have two options for authenticating yourGitHub account, SSH or HTTPS. SSH requires additional setup but is more secureand simplifies things later on. For an explanation of the differences betweenHTTPS and SSH, as well as instructions to set up SSH, see this GitHubhelp article on the subject.
Under certain cirumstances, you may get on error along thelines of Permission denied @ apply2files when installing certainHomebrew packages. This is a known issue and can be fixed by changingthe permissions on the affected files with the following command:
If you want to test some changes and deploy them locally, you can build nativelyon Windows using MinGW. If you want to generate an installer for deployment, pleasefollow Windows Installer Build (Cross-Compile) instead.
Due to the large number of dependencies, building the client installer for Windowsis currently only officially supported on openSUSE, by using the MinGW cross compiler.You can set up any currently supported version of openSUSE in a virtual machine if you do nothave it installed already.
Replace by the version of the client you are building, e.g.3.7 for the release of the client that this document describes.If you do not wish to use docker, you can run the commands in RUN manuallyin a shell, e.g. to create your own build environment in a virtual machine.
Compared to previous versions, building the desktop sync client has become easier. Unlikeearlier versions, CSync, which is the sync engine library of the client, is nowpart of the client source repository and not a separate module.
You can enable one or more sanitizers through CMake. For example, toenable the address and the undefined sanitizer, execute CMake likecmake .. -D ECM_ENABLE_SANITIZERS="address;undefined".Keep in mind that not all combinations of sanitizers work together, and on someplatforms, not all types of sanitizers are available. For example, on Windows there iscurrently only the address sanitizer available. If you are on Windows, you need tomake sure that the linker can find the sanitizer dlls at runtime. If you installedVisual Studio in the standard location, you could find them inC:/ProgramFiles (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/Llvm/x64/lib/clang/10.0.0/lib/windows.Make sure you add this location to your path. You may also need toupgrade your Visual Studio version.
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