Since install is per machine only, installation path should be stored
in local machine instead of current user. The registry stores HKLM in
different places for 32 and 64 bit applications, so the installer will
not suggest the old path when upgrading from 32 to 64 bit version.
Fixes#5592Fixes#25087
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25640
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <alexis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
The MSI install scope was set to the WiX default, which is per-user.
However, with UAC, it could not be installed by a standard user because
InstallPrivileges is elevated by default, hence the install scope
should be set to per-machine. Furthermore, the default install path is
a per-machine location and setting the system path requires
administrator privileges.
By changing the InstallScope to perMachine, Start Menu shortcuts are
placed in ProgramData and not the installing user's AppData folder,
making the shortcuts available to other users. This also fixes the
installation when AppData is a network folder.
The custom action is necessary to allow upgrades. Since a per-machine
MSI cannot upgrade an application installed per-user, the custom action
checks if there is going to be an upgrade to a previous version
installed per-user and sets the installation as per-user to allow
upgrading. Hence, the advantages of installing per-machine will only
apply in fresh installations.
Fixes#5849Fixes#7629
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25640
Reviewed-By: Alexis Campailla <alexis@janeasystems.com>
Reviewed-By: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Create the empty npm folder in Roaming\Appdata so that non-Administrator
users have a place to store global packages. This fixes the error Error:
ENOENT, stat error that occurs when a user tries to run the npm install
<package> command.
Bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/8141
PR: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/8838
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Create the empty npm folder in Roaming\Appdata so that non-Administrator
users have a place to store global packages. This fixes the error Error:
ENOENT, stat error that occurs when a user tries to run the npm install
<package> command.
Bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/8141
PR: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/8838
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Backport 668bde8ac0 from io.js.
Original commit message follows:
In theory the msi should broadcast a 'WM_SETTINGCHANGE' message to all
windows after modifying the PATH environment variable. This ensures that
the new PATH is visible to other processes without restarting windows
(although it's still necessary to close and reopen active console
windows).
Unfortunately, the broadcast doesn't always happen, for unknown reasons.
That's why this patch adds a custom action that unconditionally
broadcasts a WM_SETTINGCHANGE message.
Bug: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/603
PR: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/613
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit 668bde8ac0)
--Node.js commmit metadata--
PR-URL: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/25100
Reviewed-By: Julien Gilli <julien.gilli@joyent.com>
Fixes: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/4356
Building MSIs for different arch's can sometimes confuse MSBuild and
Wix, isntead run the toolchain externally so we don't have to worry
about which arch cmd.exe is running as.
Noteworthy installer improvements provided here:
* Support in the Installer UI for not installing shortcuts.
* Support in the Installer UI for choosing a custom install directory.
* Command line support for not installing shortcuts (ADDDEFAULT=nodejs)
* Command line support for custom install directory (INSTALLDIR=c:\tools\node)
- Fix: it didn't work for the x86 version of node
- Also add NPM to path
- Also print node version
- Don't change dir to home dir if not started from the start menu
This commit enables ETW events to be fired on Windows for existing
DTrace probes. ETW instrumentation is enabled by default. It
is possible to build node.exe without ETW instrumentation by
using --without-etw option with configure script.
The current WiX project files do some manual processing and generation
which WiX supports doing out of the box. This patch will use the
HeatDirectory task to generate the npm.wxs file and use the auto GUID
generation. I also changed the msi filename generation to include the
version number to match the currently used name for released msi files.
Closes#3360
* Update nodemsi.sln and .wixproj to include support for x64 platform
- Add ProgramFilesFolderId to the DefineConstants property for each
configuration/platform's property group with the appropriate value
(ProgramFilesFolder for x86 builds, ProgramFiles64Folder for x64
builds)
* Update product.wxs:
- update the Id value for the "Program Files" Directory element to
use a preprocessor constant.
- remove hard-coded platform from the Package element. MSI platform
will be automatically detected based on MSBuild's Platform property.
(This was already supported in the Wix MSBuild targets, we just
weren't taking advantage of it.)
* Update vcbuild.bat to set MSBuild's Platform property appropriately,
defaulting to x86 if not explicitly supplied by the user. Note that
creating an x64 build requires that vcbuild.bat be run from a VS
64-bit command prompt.
Closes#3312Closes#3356
João Reis
Steven Rockarts
Mathias Küsel
Timothy J Fontaine
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Bert Belder
Raymond Feng
Scott Blomquist
Jim Schubert
Igor Zinkovsky
Jeroen Janssen
Matt Gollob
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