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Overview

This readme describes how the .msi installer is created for Brackets on Windows.

To build the Brackets installer (after completing System Setup below)

  1. grunt installer

System Setup

Normally, the installer scripts are run via Jenkins on our build machine. These are instructions for setting up a new build machine:

  1. Download Ant; unzip it into a path (ideally a path with no spaces -- see below)
  2. Download & install a JDK (the full SDK, not just a JRE)
  3. Set ANT_HOME to the path to Ant. Must not contain spaces -- if target dir does have spaces, use the DOS-style path mapping (e.g. c:\progra~1\...)
  4. Set JAVA_HOME to the path to Java. Must not contain spaces -- same as above.
  5. Add %ANT_HOME%\bin to the PATH
  6. Download & install Wix 3.5
  7. Get the MsiTran.exe tool:
    • Option A: If you have Visual Studio installed, look in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v??\bin to locate it
    • Option B: Follow the instructions here to download the Windows SDK ISO and extract just the bit you need
    • Option C: Download the full Windows SDK online installer. On the "Installation Options" screen, uncheck everything but "Win32 Development Tools"
    • Copy it to (wix-install-dir)\bin
  8. Get the WiSubStg.vbs and WiLangId.vbs scripts:
    • Option A: Follow the instructions here to download the Windows SDK ISO and extract just the bit you need
    • Option B: Download the full Windows SDK online installer. On the "Installation Options" screen, uncheck everything but "Samples"
    • Copy these two files to (wix-install-dir)\bin
  9. You may need to locally edit wix.base in brackets-win-install-build.xml if the Wix install folder doesn't match what's hardcoded there

Update Release Number with Grunt

To rev the Brackets release number with Grunt, both brackets-shell and brackets repositories must be updated. For the initial Grunt setup, see: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Grunt-Setup.

brackets > grunt set-release --release=NN brackets-shell > grunt set-release --release=NN

To rev the Brackets release number manually

  1. Open brackets-win-install-build.xml and change product.release.number.minor, and, for a major release, product.release.number.major as well
  2. Open brackets-shell\installer\mac\buildInstaller.sh and change dmgName
  3. Open Brackets.wxs and replace the StartMenuShortcut GUID property with a newly generated GUID
  4. Open brackets-shell\appshell\version.rc and change FILEVERSION and "FileVersion"
  5. Open brackets-shell\appshell\mac\Info.plist and change CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString
  6. Open brackets\src\package.json and change "version"