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bdemchak committed Oct 4, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -9,3 +9,25 @@ The installers will be created in the target/install4j subdirectory.
It's no longer necessary to run "mvn install4j:compile" as that task has
been scheduled to run automatically in the "compile" phase.

Note to Windows developers:

You'll run into two kinds of trouble.

First, Maven doesn't deal well with blanks in path names. This causes
problems when Install4J installs into "C:\Program Files", which is
its default. It also causes trouble if your cytoscape-gui-distribution
repo is in a user directory that contains a blank (e.g.,
"C:\Users\Elmer Fudd"). In both cases, you can solve the problem
by creating soft links (e.g., C:\ProgramFiles and C:\Users\ElmerFudd)
that refer to the actual directories
(e.g., mkdir /d C:\ProgramFiles "C:\Program Files").

Second, when Maven checks the <install4j.executable> property, it's
looking for an exact file name match. You must supply the .EXE
suffix (e.g., C:\ProgramFiles\install4j6\bin\install4jc.exe).




This causes trouble in the
<install4j.executable>

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