-To create the WinMerge setup program, install InnoSetup and the QuickStart pack, and then copy or move the files to be distributed into the following layout:
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+ <title>Building WinMerge Installer</title>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+</head>
+<body>
+
+<h2>Building WinMerge Installer</h2>
+
+<h3>Needed programs:</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.jrsoftware.org/">Inno Setup</a> version 4.2.7
+ (5.x version may work too, but we haven't used it yet)
+ </li><li>
+ <a href="http://www.istool.org/">ISTool</a> <b>recommended</b>
+ - great help managing Inno Setup installer scripts
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+There is download package called "QuickStart Pack" available in Inno Setup
+downloads. It contains all needed components in one installer.
+
+<h3>Checklist:</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>
+ Installer reads version number from <code>WinMerge.exe</code>. So make
+ sure you have version resource correctly set.
+ </li><li>
+ Installer checks that files listed are present. But some files are
+ included as directory (like <code>/Manual</code>) or as filemask (like
+ <code>*.flt</code>) so take extra care to make sure all needed files
+ are present in locations shown below.
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Directory structure and files needed:</h3>
+
+These files are produced by compiling WinMerge, documentation etc, but
+that's not subject of this document, refer to readme-developers.html.
+<p>
+Copy or move the files into the following layout:
<ul>
<li>
- Build/
+ <code>Build/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- MergeRelease/
+ <code>MergeRelease/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- Manual/
+ <code>Manual/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- (Copy the entire manual directory to here)
+ <i>Copy the entire manual directory to here</i>
</li>
</ul>
</li><li>
- Merge7z*.dll
- </li><li>
- WinMerge.exe
+ <code>ShellExtension.dll</code>
+ </li><li>
+ <code>WinMerge.exe</code>
</li>
</ul>
</li><li>
- MergeUnicodeRelease/
+ <code>MergeUnicodeRelease/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- Merge7z*U.dll
- </li><li>
- WinMergeU.exe
+ <code>WinMergeU.exe</code>
</li><li>
- WinMergeU.exe.Manifest
+ <code>WinMergeU.exe.Manifest</code>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li><li>
- InnoSetup/
+ <code>Filters/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- (Copy the entire InnoSetup source directory to here)
+ <code>FileFilter.tmpl</code>
+ </li><li>
+ <code>*.flt</code>
</li>
</ul>
</li><li>
- ShellExtension/
+ <code>InnoSetup/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- ShellExtension.dll
+ <i>Copy the entire InnoSetup source directory to here</i>
</li>
</ul>
</li><li>
- Src/
+ <code>Src/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- Languages/
+ <code>Languages/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- DLL/
+ <code>DLL/</code>
<ul>
<li>
- *.lang
+ <code>*.lang</code>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</li>
</ul>
+<h3>Running Inno Setup to create installer</h3>
+
+<code>WinMerge Localized.iss</code> (in <code>InnoSetup</code> folder)
+is script used to create WinMerge installer,.
+
+Rest of this section assumes ISTool is used. If not, then refer to
+InnoSetup manual for creating installer from script.
+
+<ol>
+ <li>
+ Start ISTool and load <code>WinMerge Localized.iss</code>
+ </li><li>
+ Select <code>Project/Verify Files..</code> from ISTool menu to verify
+ all needed files are present and in correct directories. Copy missing
+ files to correct directories before continuing.
+ </li><li>
+ Select <code>Project/Compile Setup</code> from ISTool menu to create
+ installer. This takes a while...
+ </li>
+</ol>
+
+If compile succeeds you have <code>WinMerge-version-Setup.exe</code> in
+directory <code>InnoSetup/Output</code>.
+<p>
+
+<b>Test installer!</b>
+
+</body>
+</html>
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