Building Zimbra Desktop

Prerequisites For Windows

• Java SDK V1.6
• ant
• http://strawberryperl.com/
• http://wixtoolset.org/ (Version 3)
• Sign tool and certificate (only if you want to sign exe)(https://revolution.screenstepslive.com/s/revolution/m/10695/l/112948-installing-signtool-exe)
• RCEdit (https://github.com/atom/node-rcedit/blob/master/bin/rcedit.exe)

Prerequisites For Mac

• Java SDK V1.6
• ant

Prerequisites For Linux

• Java SDK V1.6
• ant

Build Steps

• Setup RCEdit (Windows Only)
  • Copy rcedit.exe to C:\rcedit folder
• Setup perl (Windows Only)
  • Install Strawberry Perl in C:\strawberry folder
• Setup Wix Toolkit (Windows Only)
  • Install Wix Toolkit V3 in C:\Program Files\Windows Installer XML v3 folder
• To run build execute below step
  • ant -f installer-ant.xml installer-clean
  • ant -f installer-ant.xml

Signing in Windows

• Create a folder C:\signtool and copy signtol.exe and certificate to sign in that
• Also create zimbra_code_signing.prop file which should contain this line - signcert.pass=<password for certificate>
• Copy certificate and rename to zimbra_code_signing_cert.pfx, if you don't want to rename it then you can pass it as ant options as well like ant -f installer-ant.xml -Dsign.cert=C:\signtool\zimbra_code_signing_cert.pfx

Signing in Mac

• Pass certificate name when creating installer
  • ant -f installer-ant.xml -Dosx_installer_cert=Developer ID Installer: Zimbra, Inc.
• If you want to disable code signing then you use
  • ant -f installer-ant.xml -Dosx.dontsign=true

Development version

• Above steps will build production version of Zimbra Desktop, which will not have developer tools to debug javascript code
• If you want to create developer version then use below command
  • ant -f installer-ant.xml -Dnode-webkit.flavor=-sdk