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AcreetionOS Media Writer on Windows

AcreetionOS Media Writer on Windows

Running

AcreetionOS Media Writer is a regular Windows application. See dependencies section for required libraries.

System configuration

The application has been developed for and tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Also Qt 6 is supported only on Windows 10 and 11.

You need to have about 200MB of free memory (RAM) available. It will take about 70MB of space on your drive.

Usage

Download the .exe installer from the Releases section of this page, then open it.

Known issues

There are several issues or things that are known to need to be improved in the future:

  • The GUI part of the application has to run as administrator - it does not request permission right before writing.

Building

You can build AcreetionOS Media Writer yourself. It has just a few dependencies and building it is a matter of just running two commands.

Dependencies

  • Qt6 (qtbase, qtdeclarative, qtsvg and qtquickcontrols2) - already part of the installer
  • Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for C++ (MSVC) runtime libraries - the installer will prompt you to install this if it's not already on your system

Steps

You can use Qt Creator to build and work with the application. If not using that, the process is basically just these two commands you need to run inside the AcreetionOS Media Writer source code directory:

cmake
make

Crosscompilation

There is also the build.sh script included that I use for building a the installer for distribution on this site. It should do everything automatically if you're in AcreetionOS. There are instructions on how to use it inside at the top of the file.

Visual C++ Redistributable Installation

The installer handles the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (2015-2022) installation on-demand, which is required for the application to run.