Browserless Application Creation

Installer Creation

Note: For internal only

Introduction

All of the code to generate Browserless Oracle installers is located here: Browserless Oracle on Sharepoint

Folder Contents

Note: Folders in red below are working directories and should not be accessed/maintained when creating builds.

• Builds

This directory contains a temporary folder for each client/version built and is generated during the browserless oracle build for each client

• Config

This directory contains batch files which are used for configuring each individual client. See the Creating an installer package for details.

• Documents

Documentation relating to the process

• Installers

This directory contains the built executable installers for release to the client. there will be a folder for each client/version built

• Java

This directory contains the java versions which will be build into the installer packages

• Resource

This directory contains the scripts, sources and configuration files used in the build

• Setup

This directory contains the software which must be installed on the users PC prior to running the installer creation process.

Note: These are for CREATING installer packages, and are NOT required on the final users machines.

Creating an Installer package

• Pre-Requisites

InnoSetup and Launch4J must be installed before an installer can be created. Run the installers from the Setup directory and accept all defaults during the process.

• Creation process

The batch script to create an installer is in the main Browserless Oracle directory:

 createNewBuild.bat

Before this is executed, a Config script is required. These are stored in the Config directory.

The scripts should be named by client. To create a new script for a new client, copy an existing one, rename and then amend it.

A client script should look like this:

set WMSTMS=
set BUILD=
set PREFIX=
set PROD=
set TEST=
set QA=
set JAVA_VER=
REM **** USE _GENERATE GUI.bat to generate a unique GUID for each client - ONLY DO THIS ONCE PER CLIENT!!!
set GUID=

• WMSTMS - Should be either TMS or WMS dependent on the system
• BUILD - the build version of the installer e.g. 1.0
• PREFIX - the clients "short" code (usually the first part of the database name before tst or prd) e.g. psdt, lfst, schw etc.
• PROD - the Production URL for the client
• TEST - the Production URL for the client
• QA - the Production URL for the client. Leave blank (but do not remove the line) if no QA/UAT system exists.
• GUID - a unique identifier for the client which is used to identify the install in the registry.

If this is a new client script, run _GENERATE GUI.bat to generate a new GUID:

Generated GUI:
bcc4b78c-11c7-4bf0-840d-275b5bc729be
This has been pasted into the clipboard - Paste this into the "<client>".bat file on the line GUID=xxx
Press any key to continue . . .

Paste this value onto the GUID line

Note: Once generated, these GUID values should not be changed for the client

Once the client script has been created, the createNewBuild.bat can be executed.

This will prompt for a client ID, which should match the name of the client script.

Once executed, the process will generate all of the files needed for the installer, sign them, and package them into an exe.

Example:

Client: Polar Speed
Polar Speed Browserless Oracle Build 15/02/2024 11:35:45.14
Create calidus_info.txt
launch4j
signtool - EXE
Inno Setup USER
Inno Setup ADMIN
signtool - Installer
Press any key to continue . . .

The above run would create 2 installers (User/Admin) in the Installers directory within Aptean Calidus-TMS or WMS and then a client/version directory:

Aptean Calidus-TMS-Polar Speed_ADMIN.exe
Aptean Calidus-TMS-Polar Speed_USER.exe

These are the signed executable installers which should be issued to the client. Note: These installers should be tested on your own PC before issue to the client

Additional Technical Details

• Java

New Java JRE packages should be downloaded from the Eclipse Temurin site and placed in the Java directory as jdk-xxx Note: This may change if we start using Oracle Java packages.

Once this is done, you should edit createJavaJRE.bat and change the set JAVA=xxx to match the folder above.

Run createJavaJRE.bat to create a java-xxx directory which has a cut down version of Java with only the required files to run browserless oracle.

The java-xxx should then be added to the JAVA_VER parameter inside the required Config script for the client.

• frmsal

The frmsal jar files are located in Resource\frmsal

The build process will try to locate a frmsal file which matches the exe being produced e.g. psdttst.frmsal.jar. If it finds a specific frmsal for the build it will use this, and if not, it will use the generic frmsal.jar

• Signing Certificate

The certificate is located in Resource\Aptean. If updated, the following lines will need amending in Resouce\core.bat:

set CERT=..\..\Resource\Aptean\Aptean_Inc.pfx
set CERTPASS=A23cDez37Fx
set CEREX=29/03/2025