LanMountainDesktop/docs/RUNTIME_PACKAGING.md

Runtime Packaging

Windows

• Windows installers do not bundle the .NET shared runtime.
• LanMountainDesktop.Launcher.exe is the package-root bootstrapper and remains Native AOT/self-contained.
• LanMountainDesktop.AirAppRuntime.exe is a package-root framework-dependent JIT process. Launcher pre-starts it, and Host can start it as a direct-run fallback.
• LanMountainDesktop.exe and LanMountainDesktop.AirAppHost.exe are framework-dependent, RID-specific apps under app-<version>/.
• Inno Setup downloads and silently installs the matching .NET 10 Desktop Runtime before continuing:
  • x64 installer: https://aka.ms/dotnet/10.0/windowsdesktop-runtime-win-x64.exe
  • x86 installer: https://aka.ms/dotnet/10.0/windowsdesktop-runtime-win-x86.exe
• Launcher runtime probing validates the architecture-matched Microsoft.NETCore.App 10.* shared framework before starting framework-dependent processes.

If the launcher returns dotnet_runtime_missing, verify the runtime architecture:

dotnet --list-runtimes
Test-Path "C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App"
Test-Path "C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App"