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<@U2VPE4C0M> I don’t think there _are_ any specific windows instructions. And aside from wix and go, there aren’t requirements. If you want to take an edit pass at <https://github.com/kolide/launcher/blob/master/docs/package-builder.md> I’m happy to read it, but I do not want to recommend chocolatey.

And if you want to be really narrow about it, git and make aren’t required. You can build without them.

You can also cross build on ~anything, and then ship the binary to windows. This is closer to what I do. My windows packaging hosts have my packaging binaries and wix.

you are saying that I can build the package-builder Windows binary itself on MacOS? Then just copy that over to a Windows system that has wix on it?

this, IME, is one of the really nice things about go. It’s really good for cross compatible work.

hmmm ok. I thought I had tried that but didnt see a Windows binary. Will try again. That would be alot easier.

If you’re using make, `make package-builder-windows` exists and should work. It produces `build/windows/package-builder.exe`

There are other ways to get it, but that’s the simplest

to be clear - that guide I linked to was just my notes on prepping a clean Win10 system to be able to build + run the package builder on Windows.

but cross-building then copying would be easier

If you want to take an edit pass on the package builder docs, I know they need it. But I don’t want to recommend chocolatey