FAQ-0796 What's the easiest way to create a .sis installation file for my application?


FAQ-0796 What's the easiest way to create a .sis installation file for my application?

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Classification:	General	Category:	Installation
Created:	05/29/2002	Modified:	05/30/2002
Number:	FAQ-0796
Platform:	Symbian OS v6.1

Question:
I find the .pkg file syntax complicated to use and error-prone. Is there an easier way to create .sis files?

Answer:
From Symbian OS v6.1, all SDKs ship with a GUI-based .sis file builder tool called Sisar. Just type "sisar" at a command prompt to start it up. The tool is basically self-explanatory but has its own internal help mechanism and is separately documented in the associated Symbian Developer Library. It can equally well be used to build .sis files for applications built with the Nokia 9200 communicator series SDK based on Symbian OS v6.0

Note that like the other GUI-based tools on SDKs for Symbian OS it depends on a Java 2 Runtime, which can be installed from the same SDK installation package or CD.