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When
the content and organization of your installation package are complete,
build and test it.
To build, choose Build > Build Installation.
The Build Installation wizard is launched and prompts you for the
following information:
- Installation type: interactive or file tree
See Installation Type, next, for
more information.
- Platform for which to build the installation package
Choose one from the list. Build a separate package for every
platform.
- The target directory in which to build the installation
This can be any directory. By default it is the project/install directory.
- List of BladePack project.prd files to include
in the installation package
You can bundle more than one project in a single installation.
Warning:
If the combined length of the path and filename of any
file is longer than 255 characters, the build fails. This is due
to a Windows limitation. To solve this problem, you can select
a shorter staging directory.
Installation Type
BladePack creates a directory structure in the target directory
and copies files into the tree. When you build an interactive installation
for a UNIX platform, BladePack includes install and uninstall shell
scripts.
When you build a file tree installation, BladePack creates the file
tree specified in the project in the target directory. A file tree
build is useful for debugging the BladePack project.
After you successfully build an interactive installation, the
target directory contains the subdirectories described in the following
table.
- Directory
- Description
- cdrom
- Contains an image of the installation package that can be transferred
to distribution media. DataBlade module developers can rename this
directory to the name of the DataBlade module before creating a .tar file.
This directory contains an install shell
script and other files that the install script
uses during installation.
- support
- Contains copies of files to support the installation, such
as project files. Its contents are not distributed with your installation
package.
- folder_tree
- Contains a directory tree containing the contents of all of
the directories to be included in the installation package. The contents
of this directory are not distributed with your installation package.
- tree
- The root of a directory tree containing files to be included
in the installation package. The tree directory
can be used to debug problems in the installation package.
The contents of this directory are not distributed with your installation
package.
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