gladiusio / gladius-node-installer-windows

Windows specific installer code

Gladius Node Manager Windows Installer 🔥

About

Here lies the source code for the Gladius Node Manager Windows Installer. This is NOT the right place if you just want to install the Gladius Node Manager. To install the Gladius Node Manager all you need is the gladius setup.exe. This page is about how to use and build our Windows installer "from scratch".

Installer

The installer was made using Inno Setup

To compile from source:

• Open install-script.iss in Inno Setup Compiler
• Download gladius.exe, gladius-controld.exe, gladius-networkd.exe, and Gladius-win32-x64 from the latest release to the source directory (where the install script lives)
• Compile (ctrl+f9)

Please refer to the Inno Setup Docs in order to see how to add or remove features, steps, files, etc...

Install Proccess

• Includes/saves all files from the source folder (where the installer script lives) into the install folder
• Create .gladius in the User/$USER directory and place the config files inside
• Adds Gladius Node (electron app) into programs and the desktop (optional)
• Adds the install location to the PATH
• Adds gladius-controld and gladius-networkd as services and starts them
• Assign icons to all of the programs

Uninstall Proccess

• Delete all the files from the install directory
• Delete the config files from .gladius and deletes .gladius if empty (does not delet wallet or key files if present)
• Removes Gladius Node from desktop and programs
• Removes install location from PATH
• Stops and deletes gladius-controld and gladius-networkd as services