MSI release signing

[ohhmm]

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Environment and version details

• Operating System+version: Windows 11 with SmartScreen on
• Compiler+version: -
• Shell: -
• B2 Version: 4.9.2

The use case

Microsoft SmartSreen requires MSI to be signed.
And boost bootstrap stage requires to build b2 first (unsigned).
And the b2 built may not pass check w/o signature.
Tried to download b2 release 4.9.2 to build boost.
MSI file was not signed.

Only developing using boost on Windows with the SmartScreen on seem blocked.

Solution

Please, consider signing installer packages.

GitHub action could sign the build https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/sign-setup-exe-and-mysetup-msi

Thanks

[grafikrobot]

Thank you for using the MSI installer. As for the signing of it.. I would love to do that. And I investigated doing that before releasing the first version of that. The process for doing the signing is relatively straight forward. Unfortunately what is hard is getting the appropriate certificates needed that Microsoft will accept. Specifically hard when I have essentially zero budget for it and such certs seem to come in at hundreds of dollars per year. Any leads on this highly appreciated.