Windows installer

Introduction

The packaging process for windows is a little more complicated than the Linux one.

Creating a new installer

• The first thing to do is checkout the windows_installer from our SVN repo.
• Then install the NSIS installer and follow the next build notes.

Build Notes

• The following directories must be present at the root directory in order to make the installer work:

  • \Graphviz2.24 # Graphviz version may be different
  • \GTK2-Runtime # At the moment the writing we are using version 2.22
  • \Python26 # py version may be different
  • ..\w3af # A fresh w3af version downloaded from SVN server (must include .svn directories along the dir. structure)
  • \image # contains the images that will be embedded in the installer
  • \AddToPath.nsh # NSIS dependency script

• Shellink plugin must be installed: Decompress \nsis-plugins\Shelllink.zip and copy Shellink.dll to Plugins folder in the NSIS installation.

• Now just simply right click on the w3af-setup.nsi and select "Compile NSIS Script". Wait a few minutes and you'll see the output file look like this: w3af 1.0 rc6 setup.exe

Preparing dependency directories

Needed only when you want to upgrade at least one the involved dependencies

• Graphviz:

  • After installing Graphviz on your machine run the script "dev-portable\copy_graphiz.bat". This will basically copy Graphviz from "Program Files" to the working directory. Feel free to edit the paths in it.

  • GTK2-Runtime:

    • First you should install all the inside prerequisite\py26\gtk*.exe files (start with gtk2-runtime-xxx-ash.exe)
    • Then decompress the zip files and put the contents inside the created GTK2-Runtime folder.
    • Copy the content of prerequisite\py26\webkit\dlls*.dll to GTK2-Runtime\bin folder.
    • Be sure to include gtk2_prefs.exe also in GTK2-Runtime\bin as well as the themes folder in GTK2-Runtime\share.

  • Python version (2.6.6 when this was written):

    • Install python on your machine.
    • Go through each folder inside prerequisite\py26 and execute the python dependencies installers. First read the '''README.txt''' if exists. Sometimes the dependency will be installed using python's easy_install or maybe you'll need only to copy some files.
    • Finally, run dev-portable\copy_python.bat (Again, feel free to modify the paths at your convenience)