Client Build Procedure

Note: All instructions assume your building on a Windows machine with TortoiseSVN installed.

Fork Tree

If this is a major or minor version change to an even numbered minor revision you'll need to fork the tree.

1. Right-click on the 'boinc' directory from trunk, and then select 'TortoiseSVN | Branch/Tag?'
2. Change the "To URL:" to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/branches/boinc_core_release_<major>_<minor>, where <major> is the major version number and <minor> is the minor version number.
3. Adjust version numbers in both the new branch and truck so that the new branch and trunk reflect the current development efforts.

The branch should represent the new stable major and even minor version numbers. Trunk should represent the next major and odd minor version number.

The files that need to be modified are configure.ac and version.h.

Example: Branch 5.10.x and Trunk 5.11.0.

Commit all changes to SVN.

Tag Tree

Increment the revision number in the files dealing with version numbers.

The files that need to be modified are configure.ac and version.h`.

Commit all changes to SVN.

1. Right-click on the branch directory, and then select 'TortoiseSVN\Branch/Tag?'
2. Change the "To URL:" to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/svn/branches/boinc_core_release_<major>_<minor>_<revision>

Where <major> is the major version number, <minor> is the minor version number, and <revision> is the revision number.

Build Client

Launch the boinc.sln project file and build both the x86 and x64 targets.

Sanity Test New Binaries

Run the BOINC manager and attach to the BOINC alpha test project, let run for 15 mins. Traverse all the tabs, verify the status fields as a result traverses the crunching process.

Code Sign Binaries

The the SignCode.cmd file from the win_build directory. This batch file should be run from within a Visual Studio command shell. SignCode should contain a series of the following line:

signtool sign /f "boinc.pfx" /p "<password>" /d "BOINC Client Software" /du "http://boinc.berkeley.edu" 
/t "http://timestamp.verisign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll" /sha1 "2F0BDC8DD84A56417C68B53B29DD12155760652D" 
.\Build\Win32\ReleaseSigned\boinc.dll

A call to signtool should be executed for each binary shipped in the setup package.

Use ​pvk2pfx to convert the spc/pvk certificate pair into a pfx file.

Replace '<password>' with the correct private key password used to create the private/public key pair.