2023-08-15 CSA Version Instructions

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There are 5 different installation scripts - CSA (ChromSwordAuto) 5.1, CSA 5.5, ChromSword Offline 5, ChromSword LicenseAdmin, ChromSword ColumnManager

• CSA 5.1 contains .net and Delphi based code.

• CSA 5.5 contains .net and Delphi based code and also NodeJS/Electron for ClientServer frontend and backend.

• ChromSword Offline 5 contains .net and Lazarus based code.

• All of .net code is obfuscated using Eazfuscator.NET.exe (4.7.123)

  • http://share.yellowrobot.xyz/quick/share-2021-12-31-57499.zip

  • Extract in C:\Program Files (x86)\Eazfuscator.NET

  • License key: 5LQE-MAX4-2HL8-XR6K-BLUT-BV6Z-28

  • Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Eazfuscator.NET to Environment $PATH in Windows

    https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

All of installation scripts are compiled using InnoSetup 6.x.

Public client versions are stored on ChromSword server http://client:newversionscsa@versions.chromsword.com/

http://internal:RWF4jiukEav8KsmcqxZAt2BpgYQVCwUdT5My3P96@internal.chromsword.com/

FTP access to upload versions to HTTP root

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FTP: ftp.chromsword.com
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user: versions
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pass: 3c7a0e746ff7ee12b788a7

Also there is secret internal version repository (cannot send to clients)

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FTP: ftp.chromsword.com
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user: internal
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pass: RWF4jiukEav8KsmcqxZAt2BpgYQVCwUdT5My3P96

CSA 5.1 installation

1. Make sure you have installed Python 3.x (Anaconda 3.x) and Visual Studio Code (not Visual Studio itself). There is automation script to build version

2. Open Script (included in main GIT repo)"C:\Development\chromsword5\InstallationInnoSetup\script_packaging_csa_5_1.py" in Visual Studio code, change paths to your local paths like

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path_root_source = "C:\\Development\\ChromSword5"

Make sure your Visual Studio version matches (Change to your version)

3. Make sure you can build projects in Chromsword.sln in Release mode - make sure you have added Eazfuscator.NET.exe to Environment $PATH in Windows

3. Set correct version numbers

In next_versions list multiple versions you want to build per batch - normally CSA 5.1 full., CSA 5.1 Hitachi edtion, CSA 5.1 Thermo edition. All of them are compiled from same unified code branch.

Make sure you set as previous version full version number from: "C:\Development\chromsword5\AutoRobust\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs"

If is_iq_update then it will generate following files. Beware that script will ask to uninstall CSA and then install it again automatically.

4. Run Python script

You should see that in Task manager there are many VS build processes

Later there are many Eazfuscator.NET.exe processes

Sometimes Eazfuscator.NET.exe process can hang up then you need to Stop python script and start again

5. After all of versions are compiled you will see:

6. Upload versions to FTP using version credentials. Installation files are located: C:\Development\chromsword5\InstallationInnoSetup\Releases

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FTP: ftp.chromsword.com
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user: versions
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pass: 

7. Document changes in version and send to ChromSword (so far I have added documentation to "C:\Development\chromsword5\AutoRobust\History.txt" in GIT repo)

Using as an example automation script in Python it could be re-written in C# or some other language, but version preparation should be done automatically and not by hand compiling each version.

CSA 5.5

For CSA 5.5 there are few additional installation scripts: http://share.yellowrobot.xyz/quick/share-2021-12-31-59849.zip

You will need to also install NodeJS and other dependencies from: http://client:newversionscsa@versions.chromsword.com/packages.zip

As well as following code repos:

• https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/chromsword5-5-installer/

• https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/chromsword5-5-report-service/

• https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/chromsword5-1-client-server-nodejs/

• https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/git-bitbucket.org-evaldsurtans-chromsword5-1-admin-console/

License Administration

https://bitbucket.org/krsaulitis/license_administration/

ChromSword Offline

https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/chromsword_offline_5/ https://bitbucket.org/evaldsurtans/chromsword-offline-service-fpc/

ChromSword ColumnViewer

https://bitbucket.org/krsaulitis/chromsword-column-viewer/

⚠️ So that there would not be errors after installation

InstallationQualification

1. Build whole solution in Release

2. Build InnoSetup

3. Uninstall old CSA version, Install InnoSetup new CSA version

4. Run in Debug InstallationQualification, File -> Generate DB (šo var izdarīt arī no konsoles, manos python scripts bija tāda iespēja)

5. Build InstallationQualification as Release

6. Build InnoSetup again