Motile Tracker Installer

This repository is used for packaging Motile Tracker into an executable for Windows, OSX, and Linux

The current workflow assumes that when a <VERSION> tag is pushed to the funkelab/motile_tracker repository, it creates a draft release. After the user edits and publishes the release the release event triggers the bundle_app workflow which packages the application and uploads the artifacts to funkelab/motile_tracker.

To create a standalone motile_tracker directly from this repo run: pixi run create-app and to create the installer for the current platform run: pixi run create-installer

To create an installer for Windows:

• Check that Visual Studio Build Tools is available
• If not download and install Visual Studio Build Tools.
• Check that InnoSetup is available. If not you can install it either with scoop (scoop install inno-setup) or with winget (winget install "Inno Setup")
• Setup the environment for running the Visual Studio Build Tools. The script to set all required environment variables is located typically at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat" so before you setup the app you need to run this bat file. For powershell run scripts\scripts/set-vs-buildTools-env.ps1 <fullpathto vcvars64>.

To create an installer on Mac:

• Check that create-dmg is available
• If create-dmg is not available, install it using Homebrew (brew install create-dmg)

To create an installer on Linux (Ubuntu) you will need:

• makeself on Linux (apt install makeself)