I don t think there are any specific windo

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< defensivedepth> 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 I m happy to read it but I do not want to recommend chocolatey

seph · Answer

And if you want to be really narrow about it git and make aren t required You can build without them

seph · Answer

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

defensivedepth · Answer

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

seph · Answer

Should be able to

seph · Answer

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

defensivedepth · Answer

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

seph · Answer

If you re using make `make package builder windows` exists and should work It produces `build windows package builder exe`

defensivedepth · Answer

gah that is probably what I missed

seph · Answer

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

defensivedepth · Answer

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

defensivedepth · Answer

but cross building then copying would be easier

seph · Answer

It read that way yes

defensivedepth · Answer

Thanks much < seph>

seph · Answer

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

seph · Answer

np