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Zonal OCR Installer

Prerequisite:

  • MSBuild and signtool should be present on machine
  • ZonalOCR project should contain all required dlls and should build without any errors

Steps:

  1. Open ZonalOCRInstaller project
  2. Navigate to appsettings.json and fill in next fields with correct values:

MsBuildPath - path to MSBuild.exe. It is required for building ZonalOCR project
SignToolPath - path to signtool.exe. It is required for signing ZonalOCR executable and an installer itself.
ZonalOcrSignKeystoreFile - keystore with certificate. It is required for signtool.exe
ZonalOcrSignKeystorePassword - keystore password. It is required for signtool.exe

For some cases default values of other parameters can be also changed:
TargetDirectory - default installation directory
ProjectName - it is used for msi file name (it will be <ProjectName>.msi)
ZonalOcrSolutionFolder - path to the ZonalOCR solution
ZonalOcrSolutionFile - ZonalOCR solution file
ZonalOcrCompiledFolder - path where installer will find compiled and obfuscated binares
ZonalOcrExecutable - ZonalOCR executable file

appsettings.json exampe:

{
  "TargetDirectory": "%ProgramFiles%\\eFileCabinet\\ZonalOCR",
  "ProjectName": "Zonal OCR",
  "MsBuildPath" : "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\MSBuild\\Current\\Bin\\MSBuild.exe",
  "SignToolPath": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\bin\\10.0.17763.0\\x64\\signtool.exe",
  "ZonalOcrSolutionFolder": "..\\..\\ZonalOCR",
  "ZonalOcrSolutionFile": "ZonalOCR.sln",
  "ZonalOcrCompiledFolder": "ZonalOCR\\bin\\ReleaseObfuscated",
  "ZonalOcrExecutable": "ZonalOCR.exe",
  "ZonalOcrSignKeystoreFile": "ZonalOCR\\efcCodeSigningCertificate.pfx",
  "ZonalOcrSignKeystorePassword": "salive.1"
}
  1. Build installer project. During the build <ProjectName>.msi will be created.
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