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Windows Packaging for SmallTextPad

This guide covers building Windows installers for SmallTextPad.

The packaging/build-exe.ps1 script will produce either:

• a Windows installer (EXE) if the WiX toolset is installed on the system, or
• an app-image ZIP (no installer) if WiX is not available.

Requirements (to build an EXE installer locally):

• JDK 21+ with build-exe on PATH
• WiX toolset (install via Chocolatey: choco install wixtoolset -y or download from https://wixtoolset.org)
• PowerShell (run as Administrator for WiX installation)

Build locally:

1. From repo root run (PowerShell):

   .\packaging\build-exe.ps1

2. If WiX is installed the installer will be in dist/installer/. Otherwise an app-image ZIP will be created at dist/SmallTextPad-windows-appimage.zip.

Continuous Integration

A GitHub Actions workflow .github/workflows/windows-installer.yml is provided to build the installer on a Windows runner and upload the produced artifacts automatically.

See Also

• JAR Build Guide - Building standalone JAR files
• RPM Build Guide - Building RPM packages for Fedora/RHEL
• Snap Build Guide - Building Snap packages for universal Linux distribution
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