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This is a guide for building the release artifacts of MiNiFi C++ for Windows. Follow it to create the artifacts and document the process as described in the documentation section.

Required environment

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 x64

Recommended hardware: at least 4 CPU cores and 16 GiB RAM

Required software

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community
  
  • Install with the "Desktop development with C++" workload, it should include all needed components
• CMake >=3.16 (https://cmake.org/download/)
  
  • Choose the "Add CMake to the system path..." option when installing
• git (https://git-scm.com/download/win)
• WiX Toolset >= 3.11 (https://wixtoolset.org/releases/)
  
  • WiX Toolset requires .NET 3.5 to install, which you can install via the "Turn Windows features on or off" utility

Build process

To build the 64-bit msi execute the following steps:

1. Create the C:\Development directory
2. Open x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017
3. Execute the following commands

   cd C:\Development
   git clone https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp.git
   cd nifi-minifi-cpp
   git checkout <tag>
   win_build_vs.bat build64 /64 /T /K /P

4. The artifact will be at C:\Development\nifi-minifi-cpp\build64\nifi-minifi-cpp.msi

(Optional) If you want to build the 32-bit msi as well, execute the following steps (after completing the 64-bit build):

1. Open x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017
2. Execute the following commands

   cd C:\Development\nifi-minifi-cpp
   win_build_vs.bat build32 /T /K /P

3. The artifact will be at C:\Development\nifi-minifi-cpp\build32\nifi-minifi-cpp.msi

Documentation

To document how a particulate release was built, duplicate this page (as it can change over time and will no longer reflect the process that was followed) and substitute the example values: