How to build the deskop version

Tom

I want to build the desktop version of spectre on my windows PC.
So, I cloned the repo https://gitlab.com/spectre.app/desktop.git and ran gradlew.bat build

I get following error:

c:\Projects-git\spectre.app\desktop>gradlew.bat build
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-all.zip

Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at java.base/sun.security.ssl.Alert.createSSLException(Alert.java:131)

I use the Eclipse Temurin OpenJDK 17.0.6

c:\Projects-git\spectre.app\desktop>where javac
C:\Program Files (x86)\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-17.0.6.10-hotspot\bin\javac.exe

Tom

I tried on a different PC with OpenJDK 11.0.17.8 and now gradlew build succeeds, but I don't see the output. Shouldn't there be a jar file somewhere?

By the way: The problem on the other PC was probably not the JDK version, but rather the fact that the PC was behind a company proxy and firewall...

lhunath

Hi @Tom,

Welcome and thank you for your interest.

The desktop repository contains the old Master Password desktop application, though the layout of the repo was slightly modified and no longer matches the gradle configuration, which wasn't brought up-to-date to match. This is because most likely, the Spectre redesign of the desktop app will no longer be based on the Java runtime.

This is the cause of your issues. I will see if I can restore the structure to a state where you can at least build the old Master Password desktop app, since it will still give you the same passwords that Spectre does.

The currently officially recommended method of using Spectre on a PC, would be to use the Spectre web application either from source (https://gitlab.com/spectre.app/web) or accessing it through: https://spectre.pw

lhunath

An update: I've repaired the repository layout and gradle configuration to match, however there is still some outstanding work to bring the desktop GUI code in-line with some refactoring that happened to the old Master Password Java algorithm codebase.