Package OpenStudio 2.5 With Qt IFW v3 For Silent Windows Installation

[mhickey3]

Hi Team,

Can someone please package OpenStudio 2.5 with QTIFW 3 to enable a remote silent deployment?
Or could someone supply an MSI installer for OpenStudio 2.5 with silent install switches?

The goal is to enable a silent Windows deployment.

Best,
mhickey3

[jmarrec]

Hello @mhickey3, I think we're using QtIFW 3 already (I use 3.1.1 personally).

You can definitely still do a silent installation, you just need a small install_script.qs to pass to the installer.

I wrote one that for EnergyPlus that can be used as a base. You'll see that the most complicated stuff is in the component selection, but if you're fine with having all components installed (App, Sketchup Plugin, CLI, etc) then it can be really really simple. Take a look here: https://github.com/jmarrec/EnergyPlus/blob/7589_SilentInstall_QtIFW/cmake/qtifw/install_script.qs

[tijcolem]

QtIFW is installed in CI machines. Just need to update in CMakeList to update to use new version.

[jmarrec]

This is already enabled for 2.9 (Edit: On Ubuntu, not windows, not sure about mac), not sure what was used to build 2.5.0.

@mhickey3

Can you run this for me please? OpenStudio-2.5.0.366cbe0e3a-Windows.exe --framework-version

And there's already an install.qs script here that you can use, I forgot about it: https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/2.9.X-LTS/install.qs

You can enable gui.setSilent(true) on line 3, and customize line 14 to 24 to unselect components you do not need.. Set the install target to C:\openstudio-2.5.0\ too on line 32:

Place this file next to the installer (or maintenancetool.exe for uninstall):

OpenStudio-2.5.0.366cbe0e3a-Windows.exe --verbose --script install.qs AllUsers=true

# Uninstall
cd C:\openstudio-2.5.0\
maintenancetool.exe --script install.qs AllUsers=true

(above is untested, not on windows)

This install script had been used for a while when we were using gitlab CI (cf https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/2c4dd5c9d790d1e1a019b328ca06957660733478/.gitlab-ci.yml#L410), and works at least as far back as 2.4.1: e0df1f9#diff-63297f0f1845c7368dde3ab9771f7988

[jmarrec]

C:\Users\julien\Downloads>OpenStudio-2.5.0.366cbe0e3a-Windows.exe --framework-version
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>2.0.3
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>OpenStudio-2.7.0.544f363db5-Windows.exe --framework-version
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>2.0.3
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>OpenStudio-2.9.0.801faa459c-Windows.exe --framework-version
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>2.0.3
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>OpenStudio-2.9.1.3472e8b799-Windows.exe --framework-version
C:\Users\julien\Downloads>2.0.3

@tijcolem so yeah, windows is still using QtIFW 2.x, unlike Ubuntu (and probably mac). This does need to be brought up to 3.1.1 for consistency (and enabling gui.setSilent).

It's just a matter of installing the new QtIFW version, add that to the PATH, and rebuilding or editing CMakeCache