Windows standalone build

[gdurif]

1. run build_standalone.R (based on R package electricShine)
2. If 1. not working, try running build_standalone_windows.R (based on R package RInno)

[fradav]

Both scripts fails with :

package 'rlang' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Erreur : (converti depuis l'avis) cannot remove prior installation of package 'rlang'
Exécution arrêtée

[gdurif]

build_standalone.R with electricShine worked, c.f. https://github.com/diyabc/diyabcGUI/releases/tag/v1.0

In the future, we might want to switch to build_standalone_windows.R (potential cleaner build)

[fradav]

Apparently the standalone is missing a few key DLL for the included binaries to work on a "vanilla" windows :

• libiomp5md.dll (openmp library used by diyabc, distributed with intel mkl installation)
• vcruntime140_1.dll (microsoft c++ redistributable).
  I make two separate issues about this

[fradav]

diyabc/abcranger#64
diyabc/diyabc#36

As a side note, we should have a "vanilla" windows VM (as a snapshot for example) to test this.

[fradav]

Good news, I can reproduce the problems in a windows vm.

[fradav]

It is completely fixed for abcranger latest release.
However, for diyabc exe, the choice of openmp as multithreading backend forces us to deploy the windows binary with two dlls (included in the release page) vcomp140.dll and vcruntime140.dll : there is no workaround, sorry.

[gdurif]

TODO

• diyabc executable detected as threat and blocked by windows (Windows security detects a component of diyabc binary as a threat diyabc#40)
• find a way to make the installer considered as safe by Windows (blocked by Edge at download and by Windows at install)
• find an alternative to electricShine to only wrap R and package dependencies inside the binary and not a pseudo-browser, i.e. the standalone would run diabcGUI::diyabc() and open the app in the host web-browser.

[gdurif]

Change of plan and new strategy based on DesktopDeployR: see 4178965

TODO:

• fix issue with log files
• fix issue when running multiple instances simultaneously

[gdurif]

TODO fixed in current release (4fd8d59).

[gdurif]

New standalone release strategy based on DesktopDeployR is now running smoothly.

See build/README.d and build/DesktopDeployR/README.md for more details and instructions.