From 3ecb0b459ee8500aa721b4ee8804bbde6f5c9dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Peter Christen <mc@yacy.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 23:58:10 +0100
Subject: fixed windows installer; updated download path for java installer

---
 README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fac273ffa..b0538b7f3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -87,6 +87,25 @@ Stop YaCy on the console with
 ./stopYACY.sh
 ```
 
+### Build the Windows installer
+
+Windows installers are built with NSIS and require the release payload produced by Ant.
+Install NSIS (`makensis`) and then run:
+
+```
+ant distWinInstaller
+```
+
+This runs the full build, stages files into `RELEASE/MAIN`, and produces the installer
+in `RELEASE/` as `yacy_v<version>_*.exe`.
+
+If you want it in two steps, you can run:
+
+```
+ant copyMain4Dist
+makensis RELEASE/WINDOWS/build.nsi
+```
+
 ### Run YaCy using Docker
 
 The Official YaCy Image is `yacy/yacy_search_server:latest`. It is hosted on Dockerhub at [https://hub.docker.com/r/yacy/yacy_search_server](https://hub.docker.com/r/yacy/yacy_search_server)
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