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Windows

Environment Setup

The following setups are required for building and packaging Sync Client on Windows:

  • Visual Studio 2019
    • Desktop development with C++
      • MSVC v142
      • Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.0) (installed by default, not used)
      • Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0)
    • Universal Windows Platform development
      • Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0)
  • Qt 6.5
    • MSVC 2019 64-bit
    • Qt 5 Compatibility Module
    • Qt Positioning
    • Qt Serial Port
    • Qt WebChannel
    • Qt WebEngine
  • Qt VS Tools

  • vcpkg

    • curl[openssl]:x64-windows
    • getopt:x64-windows
    • glib:x64-windows
    • jansson:x64-windows
    • libevent:x64-windows
    • libwebsockets:x64-windows
    • openssl:x64-windows
    • pthreads:x64-windows
    • sqlite3:x64-windows
    • zlib:x64-windows
    • argon2:x64-windows
      # Example of the install command:
$ ./vcpkg.exe install curl[core,openssl]:x64-windows

  • Python 3.7

  • wix
    • install to C:\wix
  • Paraffin
    • copy Paraffin.exe to C:\wix\bin
  • Breakpad

  • Certificates

    • install to C:\certs

    Note: certificates for Windows application are issued by third-party certificate authority.

Breakpad

Support for Breakpad can be added by running following steps:

  • install gyp tool

    $ git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:chromium/gyp.git
$ python setup.py install

  • compile breakpad

    $ git clone --depth=1 git@github.com:google/breakpad.git
$ cd breakpad
$ git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git testing
$ cd ..
# create vs solution, this may throw an error "module collections.abc has no attribute OrderedDict", you should open the msvs.py and replace 'collections.abc' with 'collections'.
$ gyp –-no-circular-check breakpad\src\client\windows\breakpad_client.gyp
    • open breakpad_client.sln and configure C++ Language Standard to C++17 and C/C++ ---> Code Generation ---> Runtime Library to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)
    • build breakpad

  • compile dump_syms tool

    create vs solution

    gyp –-no-circular-check breakpad\src\tools\windows\tools_windows.gyp
    • open tools_windows.sln and build tools_windows
    • Insert #include in the source file about unique_ptr compilation error and recompile.
    • build dump_syms
    • Copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64\msdia140.dll to breakpad\src\tools\windows\Release.

  • copy VC merge modules

    copy C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Redist\MSVC\v142\MergeModules\MergeModules\Microsoft_VC142_CRT_x64.msm C:\packagelib

Building Sync Client

Following directory structures are expected when building Sync Client:

seafile-workspace/
seafile-workspace/libsearpc/
seafile-workspace/seafile/
seafile-workspace/seafile-client/
seafile-workspace/seafile-shell-ext/

The source code of these projects can be downloaded at github.com/haiwen/libsearpc, github.com/haiwen/seafile, github.com/haiwen/seafile-client, and github.com/haiwen/seafile-shell-ext.

Building

Note: the building commands have been included in the packaging script, you can skip building commands while packaging.

To build libsearpc:

$ cd seafile-workspace/libsearpc/
$ devenv libsearpc.sln /build "Release|x64"

To build seafile

$ cd seafile-workspace/seafile/
$ devenv seafile.sln /build "Release|x64"
$ devenv msi/custom/seafile_custom.sln /build "Release|x64"

To build seafile-client

$ cd seafile-workspace/seafile-client/
$ devenv third_party/quazip/quazip.sln /build "Release|x64"
$ devenv seafile-client.sln /build "Release|x64"

To build seafile-shell-ext

$ cd seafile-workspace/seafile-shell-ext/
$ devenv extensions/seafile_ext.sln /build "Release|x64"
$ devenv seadrive-thumbnail-ext/seadrive_thumbnail_ext.sln /build "Release|x64"

Packaging

  1. Update the CERTFILE configure in seafile-workspace/seafile/scripts/build/build-msi-vs.py .
  2. Run commands:
    $ cd seafile-workspace/seafile-client/third_party/quazip
$ devenv quazip.sln /build Release|x64
$ cd seafile-workspace/seafile/scripts/build
$ python build-msi-vs.py 1.0.0