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with wine 6.0.2 and 6.0.3, cpython 3.9.11 fails to install (but cpython 3.9.10 worked) ``` 010c:err:virtual:virtual_setup_exception stack overflow 1220 bytes in thread 010c addr 0x7bc6713d stack 0x440b3c (0x440000-0x441000-0x640000) 🗯 ERROR: wine msiexec failed for dev.msi 🗯 ERROR: prepare-wine failed ``` ----- btw, related note: After changing the Dockerfile, building the docker image from cache failed. Setting ELECBUILD_NOCACHE=1 fixed it: ``` E: Could not configure 'libc6:i386'. E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) $ ELECBUILD_NOCACHE=1 ./contrib/build-wine/build.sh ```
Windows binaries
✓ These binaries should be reproducible, meaning you should be able to generate binaries that match the official releases.
This assumes an Ubuntu (x86_64) host, but it should not be too hard to adapt to another similar system.
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Install Docker
See
contrib/docker_notes.md.Note: older versions of Docker might not work well (see #6971). If having problems, try to upgrade to at least
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Build Windows binaries
$ ./build.shIf you want reproducibility, try instead e.g.:
$ ELECBUILD_COMMIT=HEAD ELECBUILD_NOCACHE=1 ./build.sh -
The generated binaries are in
./contrib/build-wine/dist.
Code Signing
Electrum Windows builds are signed with a Microsoft Authenticode™ code signing certificate in addition to the GPG-based signatures.
The advantage of using Authenticode is that Electrum users won't receive a Windows SmartScreen warning when starting it.
The release signing procedure involves a signer (the holder of the certificate/key) and one or multiple trusted verifiers:
| Signer | Verifier |
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Build .exe files using make_win.sh |
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Sign .exe with ./sign.sh |
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| Upload signed files to download server | |
Build .exe files using make_win.sh |
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Compare files using unsign.sh |
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Sign .exe file using gpg -b |
| Signer and verifiers: |
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Upload signatures to 'electrum-signatures' repo, as $version/$filename.$builder.asc |
Verify Integrity of signed binary
Every user can verify that the official binary was created from the source code in this repository. To do so, the Authenticode signature needs to be stripped since the signature is not reproducible.
This procedure removes the differences between the signed and unsigned binary:
- Remove the signature from the signed binary using osslsigncode or signtool.
- Set the COFF image checksum for the signed binary to 0x0. This is necessary because pyinstaller doesn't generate a checksum.
- Append null bytes to the unsigned binary until the byte count is a multiple of 8.
The script unsign.sh performs these steps.