Monero GUI Installer

The steps to create the Monero GUI installer in a deterministic way are described below.

First, a pull request is made to create the new release binaries

Once this PR is merged, it triggers the Github action which creates them here (take note of the run id number at the end of the URL - this script requires it)

We download the docker-windows-static file, then obtain a copy of Monero's 64bit binaries for windows, from getmonero.org (created by the Gitian build process, hashes of which can be found here).

After placing all the files correcly and touching them so they have the same modification time as the monero-wallet-gui.exe from the docker-windows-static zip file, InnoSetup creates the .exe file.

This Repo provides a Github actions file , and also a shell script we can run at home on our ubuntu 20.04 machine (Which the Dockerfile uses)

After running the actions script, you will be presented with the hash and the installer is uploaded at the end. Seen here in this build of v18.1.2

The official Monero GUI installer file is created on a windows machine, but we are able to replicate the final hash using Linux and W.I.N.E

To use the make_exe.sh script at home, ensure you have an ubuntu with wine / jq / curl / git installed. (pass the github token with public repo access)

./make_exe.sh ghp_hunter2U*U*u8888**888

Or, you can just fork this repo, and run the actions file

Docker

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/plowsof/monero-gui-exe

cd monero-gui-exe

Note: The container is not optimised and its about 3GB

docker build -t gui .

Once built you need to run the container and pass it 1 argument.

1. a github token with access to public repositories

docker run -it gui ghp_hunter2U*U*u8888**888

At the end you should see something like:

Hash of gitian built cli zip:
0a3d4d1af7e094c05352c31b2dafcc6ccbc80edc195ca9eaedc919c36accd05a  monero-win-x64-v0.18.1.2.zip
# ---------------------
# Monero GUI installer hash:
# c5dbf3e8fca7341dea1194e57b22f233ceb9471aca8692da6ffd0b4bc3a54a1b
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Improvements / TODO's

• Package the linux / windows archive files too