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Win-installer README.md: improvements and fix a mistake
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donovaly authored and yorikvanhavre committed Nov 4, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -20,17 +20,17 @@ To build the installer you can do the following:
(You can alternatively get nsProcess from https://nsis.sourceforge.io/NsProcess_plugin)
7. Copy all FreeCAD files to the folder "~\FreeCAD"
e.g. "C:\FreeCAD\Installer\FreeCAD"
8. If you use compiled FreeCAD using another MSVC version than MSVC 2017, copy
its distributable DLLs to the folder FILES_DEPS (see step 2).
8. If you use a version of FreeCAD that was compiled using another MSVC version than MSVC 2017,
copy its distributable DLLs to the folder FILES_DEPS (see step 3).
9. Right-click on the file FreeCAD-installer.nsi and choose "Compile NSIS script"
to compile the installer
to compile the installer.
10. The folder ~\MSVCRedist contains already all MSVC 2017 x64 redistributable DLLs necessary
for FreeCAD 0.19dev. If another MSVC version was used to compile FreeCAD, replace the DLLs by
the ones of the used MSVC. (They are usually available in the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC)

For test builds of the installer you can turn off the compression. This speeds up
the build time for the installer a lot but increases its file size. The compression
is disabled by uncommenting the line
is turned off by uncommenting the line
SetCompressor /SOLID lzma
in the file Settings.nsh.

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