Specify Platform Information

Specify Operating System and Language

The CCK tool can generate an installer for use on Windows or Linux. It's also possible to create a Macintosh installer by replacing some of the standard Macintosh installation files with the equivalent installation files produced for a Windows installer.

For detailed information on generating a Mozilla installer for each operating system, see "Preparing Platform and Installer Information" in Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1.

Platform

Windows. To create a Windows installer, choose Windows from the drop-down list and click Next to proceed through the other screens.

Linux. To create a Linux installer, choose Linux from the drop-down list and specify the location of the Linux tar file as described below.

Macintosh. To prepare a Macintosh installer, you first use the CCK tool to create a Windows installer, then follow the instructions in "Preparing Macintosh Installers and Program Files" in Guide to Customizing and Distributing Mozilla 1.4.1.

Linux tar file

If you select Linux from the drop-down list, you should have previously downloaded the Mozilla 1.4.1 Linux tar file named mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-sea.tar.gz to some convenient location. You can then specify the location of the tar file in the space provided.

If you are creating a Linux installer, you must also have GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (the Cygnus toolkit) installed on the system before running the CCK tool. You can obtain the Cygnus toolkit from http://www.cygwin.com/. You must also make sure that the path to the binaries for the Cygwin Unix programs is included in the Windows environment variable called PATH. To check, open the System control panel and click the Environment tab.

You need to specify the location of the Linux tar file only once. After you do so, the CCK tool creates this directory:

installation_directory\CCKTool\nscpxpiLinux\

and stores the decompressed standard Linux installation files there.

After you finish running the CCK tool, the tool creates the customized Linux build as a tar file in

installation_directory\CCKTool\Configs\my_config\Output\

You can then transfer this tar file to a Linux system and the extract the contents for testing. After you extract the contents of the tar file, you must also change the permission of the file mozilla-installer-bin to include executable permission. You can then run the install script by typing ./mozilla-installer.

Feedback. Click this button to go to a web page where you can provide feedback about the CCK Tool.

Next. Each time you click Next in a CCK screen, the information you entered or changed on that screen gets automatically saved with the selected configuration.

Exit. Click this button to exit the CCK Tool. When you click this button on the first screen, none of the information you may have specified will be saved.

7/31/2003