Introduction

The original contents of this article were adapted from Alon Bar-Lev's (the buildsystem author) emails (see External links section.

Creating the NSIS installer

You can use the buildsystem to create the NSIS installer for Windows, even if you're building on Linux. The process is as follows:

1. Create binaries using openvpn-build/generic.
2. Create tarball for easyrsa from master (temporary) files should be at easy-rsa-2.0.
3. Create the installer using openvpn-build/windows-nsis.

I did not add the UI stuff, I think there should be a discussion why these are embedded.

Alon.

External links

Alon's Git repositories

• ​https://github.com/alonbl/easy-rsa
• ​https://github.com/downloads/alonbl/easy-rsa/easy-rsa-2.1.0.tar.gz
• ​https://github.com/alonbl/openvpn-build

Alon's original instructions from emails

• ​http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/5560
• ​http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/5495/focus=5599
• ​http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/5495/focus=5592

Installers and files

• ​https://github.com/downloads/alonbl/openvpn/openvpn-install-2.3-alpha1-I000.exe