Install Dependencies

Make sure you have the latest versions of node.js and npm installed.

NPM dependencies

Don't forget to install the app's dependencies before building it:

Global dependencies:

npm install -g gulp

Local dependencies:

npm install

The last command should also install the modules for ./src and dedupe them. If ./src/node_modules/ doesn't exist then:

cd ./src
npm install
npm dedupe

You can safely ignore the conflict warnings from npm dedupe.

Pre-Requisites

OS X releases

For OS X releases, you need an OS X machine.

Linux releases

If you want to build deb and rpm packages for Linux, you need fpm. To quickly install it on OS X:

sudo gem install fpm
brew install rpm

More detailed info: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm#system-packages.

Note: I don't know if fpm works on Windows, probably not because of the dependencies. But why would you want to do that, anyway? Linux <3

Windows releases

For Windows releases, you need a Windows machine. The packaging tasks only work on Windows due to their dependencies: Squirrel.Windows and Microsoft's SignTool. Yes, I tried wine and it didn't work.

To sign the app, make sure you have SignTool.exe in your PATH.

You can use AppVeyor CI to build for Windows.