The tooling to build this is not in the Chromium repository. exe) installer: A self-contained executable that installs Google Update and then runs Chrome's mini_installer.
mini_installer.exe (//chrome/installer/mini_installer): Carries setup.exe and the Chrome 7zip archive as resources knows how to extract them and run setup.exe. setup.exe (//chrome/installer/setup): The workhorse installer. This ensures that the proper install is used and that metrics and crashes have the proper annotations. These include -system-level, -channel=FOO, and one of the install mode switches, if used (e.g., -chrome-sxs). In all cases, these invocations must carry certain command line switches from the original installation. Setup.exe is run to perform a variety of one-off tasks. The Clients key should be used for the version number and app commands (both as required by Google Update) and Chrome’s channel. These are unconditionally located in the 32-bit registry hive, so KEY_WOW64_32KEY must always be used when accessing them.īy and large, new state should we written to Chrome‘s ClientState key. 
Use of the Windows RegistryĬhrome and its installer use portions of the Windows registry established by Google Update to maintain installation-related state (not user state). A system-level install may run in the context of an interactive user (e.g., one who has downloaded Chrome's installer and passed a UAC prompt) or in the context of a machine account such as SYSTEM (e.g., installation via msiexec.exe or an update driven by a system-level install of Google Update).
GoogleUpdateIsMachine=1 in the process environment block.Ī user-level install is always expected to be run within the context of an interactive user. in an “initial_preferences” file passed via the -installerdata= command line switch, or. setup.exe defaults to performaing a user-level install (note: the Chrome download page defaults to system-level). The former is called a “system-level” install and the latter is a “user-level” install. Operational environmentĬhrome can be installed for all users on a machine or for a single user. It is also used to uninstall and remove Chrome and to perform various one-off tasks. The installer's primary concern is putting the browser on-disk in the proper location and registering it with Windows as a browser. Generally speaking, we talk about setup.exe as “the installer”, although mini_installer.exe is the thing that is delivered to devices to install Chrome. update_active_setup_version_work_item_. update_active_setup_version_work_item.h.
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