Create .exe installation

[kw2019ltd]

hi, can you publish the app as exe for windows

[leoafarias]

@kw2019ltd I am testing a chocolatey distribution
choco install fvm --version=1.3.4

[muhammed-amein]

I don't know why but I couldn't found it, a mean the .exe in choco

[msarkrish]

Thanks for the Awesome fvm tool. @leoafarias now flutter desktop for windows also stable, can you make the .exe file and upload it fvm.app website or put the download link in Github readme.

[mzdm]

@leoafarias +1 for this, this might help https://pub.dev/packages/squirrel to have auto-updates as well

[aguilaair]

Hey! If #11 gets merged there will be an MSIX installer for Windows, it is not as straightforward as squirrel to install but should be good enough for the time being.

[aguilaair]

Squirrel doesn't look to difficult to implement either, might be worth a shot too. @leoafarias could you assign this issue to me, I'll try it out on companion and if it works well w/ the auto-update feature that'll roll out then we can add this as an asset and done.

[msarkrish]

@aguilaair when we can get .exe file?

[aguilaair]

Sidekick now has .MISX, I'll experiment with squirrel soon(ish) to see if we can use it

[aguilaair]

Update: Squirrel cannot currently be implemented. We'll continue to use MSIX for the foreseeable future until the NNBD migration is done and we can use it.

[sidekick] flutter pub get
Running "flutter pub get" in sidekick...                        
Because pubspec_yaml 2.0.1+1 depends on yaml ^2.2.0 and no versions of pubspec_yaml match >2.0.1+1 <3.0.0, pubspec_yaml ^2.0.1+1 requires yaml ^2.2.0.

And because every version of squirrel depends on yaml ^3.1.0 and every version of fvm from git depends on pubspec_yaml ^2.0.1+1, squirrel is incompatible with fvm from git.

So, because sidekick depends on both fvm from git and squirrel ^0.1.0, version solving failed.
pub get failed (1; So, because sidekick depends on both fvm from git and squirrel ^0.1.0, version solving failed.)
exit code 1

[leoafarias]

Tried using squirrel but this dependency thing is a pain. Probably will be part of a null safety migration

[leoafarias]

This is on the alpha4

[DonnC]

@leoafarias i know this is closed but you can check out inno setup
i use it more often to create standalone .exe files for my flutter desktop applications as installable setup files

[leoafarias]

@DonnC can you create a new issue as an enhancement so we can discuss?

Would like to know the benefits over the current setup.