341732 - Making a Firefox windows installer needs to be described better

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bengt-Erik Soderstrom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060616 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060616 Minefield/3.0a1

With bug 340864 I think it is important that the build & install documentation is updated: There is a need to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) and also make sure it is in the path. Also 7-Zip and UPX must be installed and in the path.
The resulting self-extracting archive will be found in ../dist/install/sea

Doing this, make -C objdir/browser/installer installer will work fine again...
 



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

You know, it is a wiki ;)

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Could someone who actually knows how to do this write something up? :)

Comment 3

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

> Could someone who actually knows how to do this write something up? :)

It takes a little work, but Windows tinderboxen logs contain the necessary commands; explanation beyond the commands themselves is probably still best left to someone who's done it before.

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

> With bug 340864 I think it is important that the build & install documentation
> is updated: There is a need to install NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net) and
> also make sure it is in the path. Also 7-Zip and UPX must be installed and in
> the path.

Most of this info is already in the doc (perhaps added by someone who wasn't aware of this bug), but I added info about NSIS and made the info about 7-Zip and UPX clearer.


> The resulting self-extracting archive will be found in ../dist/install/sea

I've added this to the doc.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Note: per bsmedberg on IRC, I've since moved the Cygwin-related stuff to:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_build_prerequisites_using_cygwin