Whonix ™ Windows User Interface
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://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
- The Whonix ™-Windows-UI source code, which can be found here: https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix-Windows-UI
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
.