Installer for Windows

[jamesmarkchan]

A native installer for the current version of Windows.

This is ideally an msi or exe file and will allow clean install and uninstall of the jdiskmark program following platform best practices.

As a major convenience a windows installer would make it much easier for users to install and launch. This way user would not need to bother with:

1. Downloading java 21 installer
2. Installing java 21
3. Downloading jDiskMark release
4. unzipping the archive
5. navigating to the unzip directory
6. launching an administrative shell

It would just be:

1. downloading the installer
2. installing
3. launching jdiskmark from start menu.

Issues:

1. Duplicate names on SmartScreen - This is because the CN (common name) and O (organization) are the same and are combined in the Subject value field.
2. Different MSI name used - Trying stack overflow community: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78055873/how-to-set-title-or-displayed-msi-file-in-jpackage-install-dialog
3. UAC - Publisher unknown when running as admin - The jpackage generated .exe is not signed. -> investigating with SignMyCode - Meetup is Friday 15th 5pm pst.

[jamesmarkchan]

jpackage is available in java21:
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/specs/man/jpackage.html
jpackage --type msi --input . --main-jar myapp.jar --name

[jamesmarkchan]

hmmm:

C:\Users\james\NetBeansProjects\jdm-java\dist\jdiskmark-v0.5.1>"\Program Files\java\jdk-21\bin\jpackage" --type msi --input . --main-jar jDiskMark.jar --name jDiskMark --app-version 0.5.1
[23:57:31.361] Can not find WiX tools (light.exe, candle.exe)
[23:57:31.362] Download WiX 3.0 or later from https://wixtoolset.org and add it to the PATH.
Error: Invalid or unsupported type: [msi]

[jamesmarkchan]

Looks like there is a compatibility issue with wix version 4, i have both installed on my system atm but am adjusting the path to the v3 bins to be first. Version 3 of wix can be retrieved from here:
https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/releases/tag/wix314rtm

I took the wix314.exe version (updated 2 weeks ago) and clicked the install option:

NOTE: avoid installing with:
C:\Users\james>dotnet tool install --global wix
because it is installing version 4 with compatibility issues:

C:\Users\james>wix --version
4.0.4+a8592982

[jamesmarkchan]

Ran the generated installer and it shows up here:

• need shortcut from start menu
  it get's installed here:
  C:\Program Files\jDiskMark
  i'm able to launch jDiskMark.exe
  
  version is not displaying correctly
  we'll want to default to run in administrator mode. possibly because the resources are not packaged right i think the drive model script is not triggering.

[jamesmarkchan]

inno setup allows creating installers where the program can run as admin on windows.
https://jrsoftware.org/isdl.php#stable

[jamesmarkchan]

So issues with this so far with a signed certificate

1. duplicate names when triggering smart screen
   
2. unknown msi file referenced at install
   
3. running as admin shows unknown publisher
   

[jamesmarkchan]

For reference here is the install dialogue for Orca

And the uninstall dialogue

[jamesmarkchan]

Here is the USP uninstall dialogue: