Introduction[edit]

The Whonix ™-Windows-Installer was designed as a simple and fast way to set-up Whonix ™ on a system running Microsoft Windows.

To make using Whonix ™ after the installation as convenient as possible Whonix ™-Windows-User-Interface, more simply Whonix.exe is provided. It is a small C# based launcher for Whonix ™.

Whonix ™-Windows-User-Interface will be installed when installing Whonix ™ on Windows using Whonix ™-Windows-Installer.

The following instructions on this page document how to build Whonix ™-Windows-User-Interface from source code.

For information on how to build Whonix ™-Windows-Installer, see Whonix ™-Windows-Installer.

Screenshots[edit]

Figure: Whonix desktop starter

Figure: Whonix user interface

Figure: Stop Whonix

Building Whonix ™-Windows-UI from Source Code[edit]

Requirements[edit]

A Windows-Machine on which to do this
Visual Studio Community 2015 or newer including the ClickOnce Publishing Tools (need to choose custom and select ClickOnce during installation), which may be obtained from here: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ ^[archive]
The Whonix ™-Windows-UI source code, which can be found here: https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix-Windows-UI ^[archive]

Building[edit]

Start Visual Studio Community and click on "Open Project...". Select Whonix-UI.sln found in the highest level folder of the source you've obtained from Github. Now, click on "Build → Build Solution". You should now find the finished Whonix.exe under Whonix-UI\bin\Debug.