You find here detailed instructions how you can build the latest version of the Windows installer for the GUI wallet, i.e. for the official 0.14.1.0 release, and then help to prove (or disprove) whether those builds are really reproducible: Does everybody arrive at a bit-for-bit identical installer .exe file with the method described here?
If that's the case in principle everybody could personally check whether the installer that will be offered for download on the official getmonero.org website is really what it pretends to be, and more importantly, this would open up the possibility of a group of people building and publishing future versions of the installer together, eliminating a currently existing bottleneck in this process.
No programming experience should be needed for going through the following steps.
Note that if you have some antivirus program running it may complain about "malware", "unwanted programs", even about "trojans" when you download and/or unzip the files indicated below. These are false positives: None of the files really contain anything harmful. For some background info about this problem see e.g. here or here.
If that happens the easiest way would be to disable the real-time scanning of your antivirus software altogether during the test. As a less drastic measure you could also define scanning exceptions for all the directories you download und unzip any related files into. If anything of this worries you best not to go further and refrain from doing this test.
The steps in detail:
bin
subdirectory that gets unzipped together with those files.bin
subdirectory. Important: Those unzipped files must go directly into bin
, not into some sub-sub-directory. Your bin
directory should directly contain 17 files with a total of 361'750'750 bytes.Monero.iss
that you find among the installer files. Compile it (command Compile in the Build menu). You will get a new file mysetup.exe
in the Output
subdirectory of the build files directory: That's the desired Windows installer. (If you ran that it would indeed install the GUI wallet.)mysetup.exe
file. There are several ways to do so, e.g. with the tool Hash Check. You find more such tools e.g. by googling for "windows 10 calculate sha256".