Developers:HOWTO package windows server release

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REQUIREMENTS


BUILDING DEPENDANCIES

OCS Inventory NG Server for Windows uses following packages:


Note: XAMPP Zip version 1.7.3 include Perl and mod_perl, so no need of additionnal XAMPP Perl Addon as with previous version



OCS Inventory NG Server for Windows needs the following directory structure: 

+---+--- ocsinventory-server (Sources of Communication Server)
    |
    +--- ocsinventory-reports (Sources of Administration Console)
    |
    +--+ ocsinventory-windows-server (Sources of Windows Server setup)
       |
       +--- XML-Simple-2.18

BUIDLING NSIS INSTALLER

1) Get OCS Inventory NG Communication Server sources into folder ocsinventory-server 

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/ocsinventory-server/stable-1.3.1


2) Get OCS Inventory NG Administration Console sources into folder ocsinventory-ocsreports 

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/ocsinventory-ocsreports/stable-1.3.1


3) Get OCS Inventory NG Server for Windows sources into folder ocsinventory-windows-server 

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/ocsinventory-windows-server/stable-1.3.1


4) Put XAMPP Zip xampp-win32-1.7.3.zip file into folder ocsinventory-windows-server, WITHOUT uncompressing it. It's the NSIS installer which will uncompress it.


5) Extract XML::Simple sources into folder ocsinventory-windows-server/XML-Simple-2.18


6) Compile NSIS script ocsinventory-windows-server/OCSNG-Windows-Server-Setup.nsi to create installer.


INFORMATION ABOUT INSTALLER CODE

OnInit function:

  • Ensure only one instance is running
  • Checks "HKLM\Software\OCS Inventory NG" for previous version to get previous setup folder
  • Checks "HKLM\Software\xampp" for already installed XAMPP (no more filled with XAMPP 1.7.3) to get setup folder
  • Checks "$INSTDIR\xammp-control.exe" to see if XAMPP is really installed
  • Checks "$INSTDIR\Perl\bin\perl.exe" to see if Perl is really installed
  • Checks "$INSTDIR\apache\modules\mod_perl.so" to see if mod_perl is really installed


Section SEC01 "XAMPP Web Server" is used to setup XAMPP:

  • Extract XAMPP ZIP File into TEMP directory
  • Uncompress ZIP to user selected installation folder
  • Copy XML::Simple files into XAMPP Perl site library ($INSTDIR\perl\site\lib)
  • Launch XAMPP Setup batch command
  • Register MySQL as a Windows service
  • Register Apache as a Windows service


Section SEC02 "OCS Inventory NG Server" is used to setup OCS Inventory NG Server:

  • Checks "$INSTDIR\xammp-control.exe" to see if XAMPP is really installed
  • Checks "$INSTDIR\Perl\bin\perl.exe" to see if Perl is really installed
  • Checks "$INSTDIR\apache\modules\mod_perl.so" to see if mod_perl is really installed
  • Stop Apache service
  • Stop MySQL service
  • Remove old OCS config (1.0 RC)
  • Copy Communication Server files to Perl site library ($INSTDIR\perl\site\lib). Some files Like DTD and docs are copied to INSTDIR\OCS Inventory NG, with uninstaller.
  • Copy Apache Communication Server configuration file to $INSTDIR\Apache\conf\extra
  • Copy Administration Console files to $INSTDIR\htdocs\ocsreports
  • Create package deployement directory into INSTDIR\htdocs\download
  • Update Apache Communication Server configuration file
  • Update MySQL configuration file $INSTDIR\mysql\bin\my.cnf to enable InnoDB and set max_allowed_packet to 4 MB
  • Update MySQL configuration file $WINDIR\my.ini (if exist) to enable InnoDB and set max_allowed_packet to 4 MB
  • Update HP configuration file $WINDIR\php.ini and $INSTDIR\Apache\bin\php.ini (if exist) to set memory_limit, post_max_size, upload_max_filesize to 128 MB, enable file_uploads, php_zip and php_openssl extensions
  • Start MySQL service
  • Start Apache service
  • Launch Web browser to configure Administration Console.


Section "-AdditionalIcons" creates icons for OCS Inventory NG is start menu and desktop.


Section "-Post" creates uninstaller.


Section "Uninstall" is used to remove OCS Inventory NG Server files, but not XAMPP Web Server.


We hope it will works for you !

OCS Inventory Team

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