Keep the two Windows executables from being one file

Windows matches a filename without regard to its case, so Dikte.exe and
dikte.exe were one file in the installation directory: PyInstaller wrote
the console build second and that is the only one that landed. Every
launcher then opened a console window behind the tray, and closing it
killed the application.

The console one is dikte-cli.exe now, which the setup's shim names. The
build reads the PE subsystem of both afterwards, since a filesystem that
keeps the two names apart is exactly what the check would run on
otherwise.
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@@ -45,13 +45,33 @@ $env:DIKTE_ICO = $icon
# 2. The application --------------------------------------------------------
# Two executables in the one directory: Dikte.exe, which is windowed and is
# what a shortcut starts, and dikte.exe, which has a console and is what the
# `dikte` command runs.
# what a shortcut starts, and dikte-cli.exe, which has a console and is what
# the `dikte` command runs. Their names differ by more than case on purpose;
# Windows would otherwise keep one file for both.
& python -m PyInstaller (Join-Path $root "packaging\dikte.spec") `
--distpath (Join-Path $build "dist") --workpath (Join-Path $build "work") `
--noconfirm --clean
if ($LASTEXITCODE -ne 0) { throw "PyInstaller failed" }
# And the check that the two are really two. Windows matches a filename
# without regard to its case, so a rename that leaves them a case apart puts
# one file in the directory and whichever was written second is what both
# names find. It cost a windowed build once, silently: the machines the
# packaging is otherwise checked on all have case-sensitive filesystems, so
# this only ever shows up here. Subsystem 2 is windowed, 3 is a console, and
# it is the field the loader reads to decide which to give.
function Get-PeSubsystem($path) {
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($path)
$header = [BitConverter]::ToInt32($bytes, 0x3C)
return [BitConverter]::ToUInt16($bytes, $header + 0x5C)
}
foreach ($pair in @(@("Dikte.exe", 2), @("dikte-cli.exe", 3))) {
$subsystem = Get-PeSubsystem (Join-Path $dist $pair[0])
if ($subsystem -ne $pair[1]) {
throw "$($pair[0]) is subsystem $subsystem, expected $($pair[1]): the two executables collided"
}
}
# 3. ffmpeg -----------------------------------------------------------------
# Recording on Windows goes through ffmpeg's DirectShow input, and Windows
# ships nothing like it, so without this the download would be an application