Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Try building an MSI installer #1057

Draft
wants to merge 3 commits into
base: trunk
Choose a base branch
from
Draft

Conversation

fredrikekelund
Copy link
Contributor

@fredrikekelund fredrikekelund commented Mar 12, 2025

Related issues

Proposed Changes

  • Configure Squirrel.Windows to also build an MSI installer, suitable for machine-wide installs on Windows (see docs)

Testing Instructions

Pre-merge Checklist

  • Have you checked for TypeScript, React or other console errors?

@fredrikekelund fredrikekelund self-assigned this Mar 12, 2025
@fredrikekelund
Copy link
Contributor Author

Hey, @mokagio 👋 I'm trying to configure Squirrel.Windows to output an MSI installer enabling users to install Studio system-wide on Windows. Squirrel has built-in support for this and I've managed to output an MSI artifact as part of the CI build, but I get the following error when I run the installer on Windows:

Screenshot 2025-03-12 at 14 04 07

When I run the installer as an administrator, I get the following (even more puzzling) error:

Screenshot 2025-03-12 at 14 20 10

Long shot, but do you have any ideas for potential fixes?

@wojtekn wojtekn marked this pull request as draft March 14, 2025 11:17
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant