Building on Windows

We assume you’ve set up your environment to run Tribler. Don’t forget to build the GUI using NPM! Additionally, you will need to install:

  • NSIS, the SimpleFC plugin, and the nsProcess plugin.

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise. 2022 Community will also work, but you need to edit tribler.nsi in the appropriate place.

  • Windows Kits 10.0.26100.0.

  • OpenSSL.

Note

If you install any of these applications to non-default folders, you will need to modify the build scripts.

Run the following commands in your command prompt (assuming you are in the Tribler’s repository root folder).

First, install additional requirements:

python -m pip install -r build/requirements.txt

Second, create the .exe file in the dist directory. You can set the GITHUB_TAG to whatever you want to have your version set as.

set GITHUB_TAG="1.2.3"

build\win\makedist_win.bat