<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>6.5 Creating an Installer</TITLE><LINK href="ozdoc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></HEAD><BODY><TABLE align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" class="nav"><TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD><A href="node10.html#section.cygwin.documentation"><< Prev</A></TD><TD><A href="node6.html">- Up -</A></TD></TR></TABLE><DIV id="section.cygwin.installer"><H2><A name="section.cygwin.installer">6.5 Creating an Installer</A></H2><P> Windows applications are typically distributed as an installer, which not only creates the file system structure, but also adds the command line tools to the <CODE>PATH</CODE>, creates Start Menu entries, and establishes associations for file extensions (in our case, <CODE>.oz</CODE> and <CODE>.ozg</CODE> files are associated with <CODE>oz.exe</CODE>, and <CODE>.oza</CODE> files are associated with <CODE>ozenginew.exe</CODE>). Installers also provide a clean way of removing applications from your system. The only reason I see why you would want to remove Mozart is to install a new release. </P><P> Creating an installer is not necessary if you do not plan to redistribute your Mozart build. You can run Mozart from your <I>install</I> directory directly. </P><P> We build our installer with InnoSetup, which is a <I>free</I> installer for Windows programs. You can get it from <A href="http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php"> <CODE>http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php</CODE></A>. Start up InnoSetup and open the script <I>mozart</I><CODE>/misc/mozart.iss</CODE>. Then, run the script and everything should fine. Congratulations! You're the proud owner of a Mozart installer! </P></DIV><TABLE align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="6" class="nav"><TR bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><TD><A href="node10.html#section.cygwin.documentation"><< Prev</A></TD><TD><A href="node6.html">- Up -</A></TD></TR></TABLE><HR><ADDRESS><A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/">Denys Duchier</A>, <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~kornstae/">Leif Kornstaedt</A>, <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~scheidhr/">Ralf Scheidhauer</A> and <A href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~schulte/">Christian Schulte</A><BR><SPAN class="version">Version 1.4.0 (20090610)</SPAN></ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>
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