Building Windows iHRIS

Overview

This page describes how to build a customized windows installer. The installer is built on a windows machine using the Cygwin linux like environment for windows. It is highly recommended that you build the installer in the default installation directory which is

C:\Program Files\ihris-suite

so you should un-install the ihris-suite if you have installed on the computer that wish to build the installer on and remove this directory.

Installing Cygwin

In order to build a windows installer, you must have a cygwin installed on your computer. To do this, download and run setup.exe. You can find detailed instructions here. You will need to install the following packages

• wget
• make
• tar
• unzip