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[pscEx]

I have a software which reques it. I want to make an minimal image for Virtual Box. I'll try other readers. My software has a certificaton. I don't know if others support it.
 
Is it possible to add http://reboot.pro/to...dobe-reader-xi/? How?

 
It is not possible to add a script for the deprecated WinBuilder 08x to the new WinBuilder 20xx.
 
I'll have a look into the old script and will see what is possible.
 
In the mean time maybe you try my new SumatraPDF plugin. The process of upload may be finished in about one hour.
 
Peter

[pscEx]

A new version is uploaded.

 

What's New in Version 2015.05.04

• Added MS Installer
• Added Command History functionality
• Added Custom Project

Peter

[pscEx]

New version published.

 

What's New in Version 2015.05.14

• Small adjustment in command history: ESCAPE cleans current line
• Fix bug in starting NVDA
• Check custom projects for valid source
• Added User Folders
• Fixed bug on linux, when WinBuilder was on a different than the home volume.

Peter

 

[pscEx]

New version is uploaded!

What's New in Version 2015.06.12

• BUILD CORE, WIM, ISO now fully independent from each other.
• Add cached files collections, rather than expanding from WIM on every build. This brings on my old XP machine a build from more than 6 minutes downto 2:30 minutes.
• Add Win7pe function "Update.java" which uses external file "update.ini" to make optional necessary Win7Pe settings file adaptions on WinBuilder update.

You can now modify your PE by e.g.:

(Thought more for developers than standard users!)

• BUILD CORE
• Add / change / remove something in <BaseDir>\output\wim-boot
• BUILD WIM
• Add / change / remove something in <BaseDir>\output\bootdisk
• BUILD ISO

The idea of "Cached files" is also not new. In WinBuilder 8x there are some projects with "Stored WIMs".
The difference is that the "Stored WIMs" are complete and need some GB space per source CD.
The here used method caches only the "Standard PE" files, which needs only about 350 mb per source CD.
The other files (e.g. in plugins) are still extracted actually from the WIMs.
 
Some logs showing the timing:
 
Standard build:

Spoiler

2015/06/10 11:20:17 [COMMAND] build
2015/06/10 11:20:17 [COMMAND] BUILD CORE
2015/06/10 11:20:17 [STARTING] Asynchronously delete files from previous build
2015/06/10 11:20:17 [CREATING] Basic ISO folder structure
2015/06/10 11:20:17 [CREATING] Basic WIM folder structure
2015/06/10 11:20:17 [OPENING] Source WIM archives
2015/06/10 11:20:25 [ADDING] CORE: BaseHive
2015/06/10 11:20:30 [STARTING] Copy Components to V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\wim-boot
2015/06/10 11:20:30 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Localise
2015/06/10 11:20:32 [ADDING] CORE: BasicFiles
2015/06/10 11:20:53 [FINISHED] Asynchronously deleted files from previous build
2015/06/10 11:22:07 [ADDING] COMPONENT: InternetExplorer
2015/06/10 11:22:12 [ADDING] CORE: IEFiles
2015/06/10 11:22:30 [ADDING] COMPONENT: PENetwork
2015/06/10 11:22:31 [ADDING] COMPONENT: NetSupport
2015/06/10 11:22:32 [ADDING] CORE: NetFiles
2015/06/10 11:22:55 [ADDING] CORE: DOSCommands
2015/06/10 11:22:59 [ADDING] CORE: DriverStore
2015/06/10 11:24:00 [ADDING] CORE: MoreDrivers
2015/06/10 11:24:15 [ADDING] CORE: BrowserFonts
2015/06/10 11:24:25 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MMC
2015/06/10 11:24:28 [ADDING] CORE: MMCFiles
2015/06/10 11:24:41 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MSI
2015/06/10 11:24:47 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MSPaint
2015/06/10 11:24:50 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Notepad
2015/06/10 11:24:50 [ADDING] COMPONENT: RecEnv
2015/06/10 11:24:52 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Regedit
2015/06/10 11:24:53 [ADDING] COMPONENT: TaskManager
2015/06/10 11:24:53 [ADDING] COMPONENT: WallPaper
2015/06/10 11:24:55 [INFO] Adding Win7PE x86 drivers..
2015/06/10 11:24:55 [INFO] Adding Win7PE x86 plugins..
2015/06/10 11:24:55 [ADDING] COMPONENT: DriverPacks
2015/06/10 11:24:55 [ADDING] COMPONENT: CustomDrivers
2015/06/10 11:24:55 [ADDING] CORE: ShutDownPE
2015/06/10 11:24:56 [ADDING] CORE: StartupCode
2015/06/10 11:24:58 [ADDING] CORE: Grub4DOS
2015/06/10 11:24:59 [CLOSING] Source WIM archives
2015/06/10 11:25:00 [CLOSING] Target registry hives
2015/06/10 11:25:02 [DONE] wim-boot directory built in 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:25:02 [COMMAND] BUILD WIM
2015/06/10 11:25:02 [STARTING] Creating a new WIM archive, using the files from wim-boot as source, compression "NONE"
2015/06/10 11:25:04 [RUNNING] 5% done
2015/06/10 11:25:08 [RUNNING] 15% done
2015/06/10 11:25:12 [RUNNING] 25% done
2015/06/10 11:25:15 [RUNNING] 35% done
2015/06/10 11:25:17 [RUNNING] 45% done
2015/06/10 11:25:21 [RUNNING] 55% done
2015/06/10 11:25:25 [RUNNING] 65% done
2015/06/10 11:25:27 [RUNNING] 75% done
2015/06/10 11:25:32 [RUNNING] 85% done
2015/06/10 11:25:36 [RUNNING] 95% done
2015/06/10 11:25:38 [DONE] The WIM file is available at V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\bootdisk\sources\boot.wim and is sized in 338 Mb.
2015/06/10 11:25:38 [DONE] WIM built in 36 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:25:38 [COMMAND] BUILD ISO
Warning: Allowing more than 8 directory levels breaks ISO 9660 conformance.
2015/06/10 11:25:38 [STARTING] Creating the ISO image
2015/06/10 11:25:52 [DONE] The ISO file is available at V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\bootdisk.iso and is sized in 342 Mb.
2015/06/10 11:25:52 [DONE] ISO built in 13 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:25:52 [COMPLETED] Project build was concluded in 5 minutes and 35 seconds.

Cached build:

Spoiler

2015/06/10 11:50:30 [COMMAND] build
2015/06/10 11:50:30 [COMMAND] BUILD CORE
2015/06/10 11:50:30 [STARTING] Asynchronously delete files from previous build
2015/06/10 11:50:30 [CREATING] Basic ISO folder structure
2015/06/10 11:50:31 [CREATING] Basic WIM folder structure
2015/06/10 11:50:31 [OPENING] Source WIM archives
2015/06/10 11:50:36 [ADDING] CORE: BaseHive
2015/06/10 11:50:41 [STARTING] Copy Components to V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\wim-boot
2015/06/10 11:50:41 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Localise
2015/06/10 11:50:42 [ADDING] CORE: BasicFiles
2015/06/10 11:50:45 [FINISHED] Asynchronously deleted files from previous build
2015/06/10 11:51:45 [ADDING] COMPONENT: InternetExplorer
2015/06/10 11:51:48 [ADDING] CORE: IEFiles
2015/06/10 11:51:54 [ADDING] COMPONENT: PENetwork
2015/06/10 11:51:54 [ADDING] COMPONENT: NetSupport
2015/06/10 11:51:55 [ADDING] CORE: NetFiles
2015/06/10 11:52:02 [ADDING] CORE: DOSCommands
2015/06/10 11:52:03 [ADDING] CORE: DriverStore
2015/06/10 11:52:16 [ADDING] CORE: MoreDrivers
2015/06/10 11:52:20 [ADDING] CORE: BrowserFonts
2015/06/10 11:52:23 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MMC
2015/06/10 11:52:25 [ADDING] CORE: MMCFiles
2015/06/10 11:52:28 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MSI
2015/06/10 11:52:31 [ADDING] COMPONENT: MSPaint
2015/06/10 11:52:33 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Notepad
2015/06/10 11:52:33 [ADDING] COMPONENT: RecEnv
2015/06/10 11:52:33 [ADDING] COMPONENT: Regedit
2015/06/10 11:52:33 [ADDING] COMPONENT: TaskManager
2015/06/10 11:52:34 [ADDING] COMPONENT: WallPaper
2015/06/10 11:52:35 [INFO] Adding Win7PE x86 drivers..
2015/06/10 11:52:35 [INFO] Adding Win7PE x86 plugins..
2015/06/10 11:52:35 [ADDING] COMPONENT: DriverPacks
2015/06/10 11:52:35 [ADDING] COMPONENT: CustomDrivers
2015/06/10 11:52:35 [ADDING] CORE: ShutDownPE
2015/06/10 11:52:36 [ADDING] CORE: StartupCode
2015/06/10 11:52:38 [ADDING] CORE: Grub4DOS
2015/06/10 11:52:38 [CLOSING] Source WIM archives
2015/06/10 11:52:39 [CLOSING] Target registry hives
2015/06/10 11:52:41 [DONE] wim-boot directory built in 2 minutes and 11 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:52:41 [COMMAND] BUILD WIM
2015/06/10 11:52:41 [STARTING] Creating a new WIM archive, using the files from wim-boot as source, compression "NONE"
2015/06/10 11:52:42 [RUNNING] 5% done
2015/06/10 11:52:44 [RUNNING] 15% done
2015/06/10 11:52:46 [RUNNING] 25% done
2015/06/10 11:52:48 [RUNNING] 35% done
2015/06/10 11:52:49 [RUNNING] 45% done
2015/06/10 11:52:51 [RUNNING] 55% done
2015/06/10 11:52:54 [RUNNING] 65% done
2015/06/10 11:52:55 [RUNNING] 75% done
2015/06/10 11:52:58 [RUNNING] 85% done
2015/06/10 11:53:01 [RUNNING] 95% done
2015/06/10 11:53:02 [DONE] The WIM file is available at V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\bootdisk\sources\boot.wim and is sized in 338 Mb.
2015/06/10 11:53:02 [DONE] WIM built in 20 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:53:02 [COMMAND] BUILD ISO
Warning: Allowing more than 8 directory levels breaks ISO 9660 conformance.
2015/06/10 11:53:02 [STARTING] Creating the ISO image
2015/06/10 11:53:20 [DONE] The ISO file is available at V:\WB2_A\WB2\winbuilder\run\output\bootdisk.iso and is sized in 342 Mb.
2015/06/10 11:53:20 [DONE] ISO built in 17 seconds.
2015/06/10 11:53:20 [COMPLETED] Project build was concluded in 2 minutes and 49 seconds.

 

Peter

[pscEx]

I got a strange error report inside the download section and removed from there.

 

Please report troubles here!

 

Peter

[Darkman74]

I tried this Build on several systems - but it dosent work. first i tried (two) Win 7 x64 with actual updates - winbuilder dosent start.

archLinux x64 with JDK 8.x winbuilder dosent start (the syntax to launch seems to be wrong?!?)

at least i tried win8.1 same here 

 

the Windows Systems dosent report anny errors 

 

(sorry 4 the bad english) 

 

kind regards 

 

Andy

[pscEx]

Try to start WinBuilder from console:

 

<BaseDir>run\jre\bin\java -Xms640m -Xmx1024m -jar <BaseDir>\winbuilder.jar

 

<BaseDir> is where WinBuilder.jar is installed.

 

This maybe outputs error messages.

 

Peter

[Darkman74]

Hello Peter,

 

thank you for the quick reply.

 

Here the Output.

 

 

c:\work\winbuilder>java -Xms640m -Xmx1024m -jar winbuilder.jar

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter 'direct

ory' is not a directory

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.validateListFilesParameters(FileUtils

.java:545)

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.listFiles(FileUtils.java:521)

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.listFiles(FileUtils.java:691)

        at win7pecore.Update.checkActivateDriver(Update.java:84)

        at win7pecore.Update.action(Update.java:63)

        at win7pecore.Win7PE.<init>(Win7PE.java:133)

        at build.Core.main(Core.java:133)

 

testet on w7 x64 with java 7.x and the java version bundled with winbuilder 

the same on w8.1 x64 and java 8.x

Edited by Darkman74, 22 June 2015 - 10:00 AM.

[pscEx]

your command line should be:

 

C:\winBuilder>run\jre\bin\java -Xms640m -Xmx1024m -jar winbuilder.jar

 

I'm going to do some tests with mixed java 6 / 7 /8.

 

But allow me two weeks of vacation before (coming back july 6th)

 

Peter

Edited by pscEx, 22 June 2015 - 04:10 PM.
Sorry, thr RUN\ is wrong

[Darkman74]

Just testet with other location - same problem.

 

Schönen Urlaub! ;-) 

 

(eben erst gesehen das du quasi aus der Nachbarschaft kommst) 

Edited by Darkman74, 22 June 2015 - 10:50 AM.

[BxB]

Just downloaded ver. 2015.06.12 to two of my Win 7 sp 1 machines, it works on neither.  I double click on WinBuiler.exe, it starts doing something, but nothing happens, no screen comes up. 

[pscEx]

I could reproduce.

 

There may be an issue in  adressing the delivered Java, when Java is not installed on the host.

 

I'll fix as soon as possible.

 

Peter

[pscEx]

Issue fixed.

 

WinBuilder.exe now starts on a host without Java installed.

 

I could not test when the installed java version is below 6. But that should work too.

 

Is there somebody still working with such an old Java version below 6?. Please report.

 

Peter

[Darkman74]

Problem still exists :-(

Win 7 Prof. x64 (German)

Java 8 update 45 installed.

 

 

Tried both ways 

- Start the Exe within the Directory

- Start from Command Prompt 

 

 Command Prompt produces folowing output 

 

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter 'direct

ory' is not a directory

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.validateListFilesParameters(FileUtils

.java:545)

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.listFiles(FileUtils.java:521)

        at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.listFiles(FileUtils.java:691)

        at win7pecore.Update.checkActivateDriver(Update.java:84)

        at win7pecore.Update.action(Update.java:63)

        at win7pecore.Win7PE.<init>(Win7PE.java:133)

        at build.Core.main(Core.java:133)

I try at home with Archlinux and another Win7 .....

[pscEx]

Command prompt was the right way to find exceptions! Congratuation!

 

I'll try with your configuration.

 

Peter

[mcmccam]

I'm having the exact same error. I've tried it on two different computers running Windows 8.1 64bit and one fresh install of Windows 7 32bit. Same error on all of them.

[pscEx]

I could reproduce. As known, when the issue is well described, it is already solverd one half.

 

Here seems to be a design issue, to attach only a 32 bit jre.

 

But launch4j, which is building winbuilder.exe, can only process one attached jre.

 

I have to find a work around.

 

Peter

[pscEx]

A new version is uploaded.

What's New in Version 2015.07.24

• Corrected startup for different host OS and architecture
• Some enhancements with autoupdate on different hosts

This fixes hopefully the last time reported issues.

 

Tested with:

 

XP SP3 32 and 64 bit

Win7 32 and 64 bit

Linux Mint Cinnamon 64 bit

 

Members can do me a favoure and test the upgrade mechanism.

 

Instead downloading the latest version, download manually http://winbuilder.ex..._2015.07.16.zip

This is practically the same file like the latest upload, but has a different version number.

 

Unpack this "Old" version into an empty directory and start winbuilder (winbuilder.exe in WIN systems, winbuilder.jar in others).

Follow the instructions to upgrade.

 

The process should lead you finally to the latest winbuilder (2015.07.24) and build the PE successfully.

If not, please report the details.

 

Billy-Bob

[pscEx]

A new version is uploaded.

What's New in Version 2015.10.13

• Added optional ability to load special plugin's app on every build (For beta tests with rapidly changing apps)

This is done especially for testing Siginets Uninfector.

 

Because this change is not relevant for normal users, there is no message of WinBuilder about a newer version.

 

Existing plugins do not have the property "ForceDownload" and are therefore fully unaffected.

 

Peter

[Shoshi]

I'm running MX15 on one of my laptops (it is based on Debian Jessie) and I cannot run this program at all. When I try I get the following error.

 

Unrecognized option: -Xsx1024m

Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.

Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

 

 

I have this version of Java installed.

 

java version "1.8.0_74"

Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_74-b02)

Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.74-b02, mixed mode)

 

[pscEx]

Sorry, there has been a (correccted) typo in the description.

 

Instead of

java -Xsm640m -Xsx1024m -jar winbuilder.jar

use

java -Xms640m -Xmx1024m -jar winbuilder.jar

 

Peter

[Wonko the Sane]

What can I say?

Libby Lol!


Wonko

[Shoshi]

I got it working and downloaded a valid windows 7 source (windows 7 ultmate 32bits). It does build the iso, but when it boots it is very low res and has a very low color bit depth. I also installed several app plugins and the start menu shortcuts cannot find the apps. I can navigate to the apps in the PE and launch them.

[Shoshi]

This is what it looks like.

Edited by Shoshi, 05 March 2016 - 09:07 PM.

[pscEx]

Sorry, onother small but important glitch in the upload.

The attached file is missing.

 

Unzip it into your WinBuilder directory.

 

I'll correct the download.

 

Peter

 

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