Package Building on Windows

Below are instructions for how to set up a full package-building environment for Windows.

Pre-requisites

Using the following method, you can do a batch build of one or more apps, and also build the installer package. To do this, you need to install a few things:

1. Python: There are various ways to do this; I install things like Python under cygwin, but you can just do a normal windows install as well.
2. SCons builder (make replacement): SCons
3. NSIS (Windows .msi/.exe installer builder): NSIS

Building

To build just the adl_workbench application...

1. start a command shell window in the .../openEHR directory

2. type

    scons downloads/windows/adl_workbench
   

This assumes SCons, Python and NSIS are in your path. If not, you could use a script like the following in the .../openEHR directory:

set path=%path%;c:\cygwin\bin;c:\program files\nsis
set PLATFORM=win32
scons ..\downloads\windows\adl_workbench

If everything went well, there should be a new .exe package installer at ...\openehr\downloads\windows\adl_workbench\ADLWorkbenchInstall.exe

The build scripts

The build scripts are as follows:

• .../openEHR/adl-tools/SConstruct - the master SCons build script. This builds apps in a standard way on all platform, then decides based on which platform it is running on, which package installer to invoke.
• Windows package installer (NSIS) script is at ...\openEHR\adl-tools\apps\adl_workbench\install\windows\ADL_Workbench
• OSX installer is created as an archive of a directory structure at ...\openEHR\adl-tools\apps\adl_workbench\install\mac_osx