Workflow for building Windows installers

[parvit]

Fixes #5065, please review and send feedback.

Description of the Change

The change implements a new workflow that allows to build the installers for windows platform using the WiX toolset version 3.14.

Versions

Installers will be generated (supporting Windows 7 platform onward) for the following combinations:

• x64
• x64 with VirtualBox installer bundled
• ARM64

Prerequisites to build

The following software must be available in order to build locally:

• MSBuild 2022
• Powershell 7+
• WiX Toolkit 3.14

Secrets

Two Github secrets are necessary for correct operation of workflow:

• secrets.CERTIFICATE_FILE: This needs to point to a valid certificate file in PFX format, comprising of the certificate plus private key necessary for signing
• secrets.CERTIFICATE_PASS: Password used for accessing the CERTIFICATE_FILE secret

Output

The generated installers have the nomenclature boinc_{version}_windows_{variant}.exe, where:

• version : is the value BOINC_VERSION_STRING extracted from file version.h when on CI, if building locally it is the value passed to installer.ps1
• variant : a string value depending on the selected variant (eg. x86_64, x86_64_vbox, arm64)

An example name for x64 version 7.24.0.0 would be: boinc_7.24.0.0_windows_x86_64.exe.

Building and Integration

Workflow can be triggered by pushing on master branch.

Locally, the 'build' and 'build/prerequisistes' folders must be created, their contents being:

• build: the contents of 'manager' and 'client' packages, required binaries (boinc.exe, boincmgr.exe, etc...) are checked for presence and additional files harvested and included in installation
• prerequisites: if required by the variant (eg. x64+VirtualBox) the file VirtualBox-7.0.10-158379-Win.exe (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.10/VirtualBox-7.0.10-158379-Win.exe) is expected, empty otherwise

Now the powershell script installer.ps1 can be invoked like so:
pwsh -f .\installer.ps1 -Version <version> -Type <type> -Certificate <pfx path> -CertificatePass <pfx password>

With 'type' being one of: x64,x64_vbox,arm64.

After finishing execution the result can be found in build/ directory.

Release Notes

Building Windows installers with WiX toolkit

[parvit]

@AenBleidd please review and send feedback.

[talregev]

@parvit You should fix your conflicts.

[AenBleidd]

@parvit You should fix your conflicts.

This was already discussed is a separate chat

[parvit]

Will reopen from different branch