Find out why the desktop app is being blocked by Antiviruses in Windows

[kuronosec]

As described in #41 with BitDefender and also seem with Avast in another testing machine, the windows version is being flagged by antivirus tools. Lets find the reason for that and how to fix it.

[DavidIfebueme]

can i investigate this as well.

[aidenwong812]

Is it okay if I tackle this?

[kuronosec]

can i investigate this as well.

@DavidIfebueme please go ahead

[DavidIfebueme]

hi @kuronosec, i'm investigating this and first when running the build_windows.sh script, the installer.iss expects a zk-artifacts dir to be generated but its not. shouldn't we add a line in build_windows.sh to mkdir /build/zk-artifacts or skip in installer.iss if not necessary.

then, each time i try to run the actual .exe that has been built, there's an error showing there's a module i need to install first. please, is there a requirements.txt that i can just use to install all dependencies at once so i can move forward.

[kuronosec]

hey @DavidIfebueme

hi @kuronosec, i'm investigating this and first when running the build_windows.sh script, the installer.iss expects a zk-artifacts dir to be generated but its not. shouldn't we add a line in build_windows.sh to mkdir /build/zk-artifacts or skip in installer.iss if not necessary.

Yeah please add the directory creation in the script.

then, each time i try to run the actual .exe that has been built, there's an error showing there's a module i need to install first. please, is there a requirements.txt that i can just use to install all dependencies at once so i can move forward.

Could you add the error log here so I can see it? thanks!

[DavidIfebueme]

@kuronosec

Yeah please add the directory creation in the script.

will do

Could you add the error log here so I can see it? thanks!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 25, in <module>
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 384, in exec_module
  File "certificate.py", line 6, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'asn1crypto'

[kuronosec]

@kuronosec

Yeah please add the directory creation in the script.

will do

Could you add the error log here so I can see it? thanks!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 25, in <module>
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 384, in exec_module
  File "certificate.py", line 6, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'asn1crypto'

hmm that's strange its in requirements.txt:

cat src/requirements.txt
asn1crypto==1.5.1
certvalidator==0.11.1
PyJWT==2.9.0
PyKCS11==1.5.17
PyQt6==6.7.1
PyQt6_sip==13.8.0
https://github.com/wbond/oscrypto/archive/d5f3437ed24257895ae1edd9e503cfb352e635a8.zip
web3==7.4.0
cryptography

maybe we need to add a instruction to install such dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt