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From the Project Explorer window, right-click Build Specifications and select New»Installer from the shortcut menu to display this dialog box. You also can right-click an existing installer specification name under Build Specifications and select Properties from the shortcut menu, or double-click the installer specification name.

Note  If you previously hid Build Specifications in the Project Explorer window, you must display the item again to access it.

Use this dialog box to create or configure settings for an installer.

The Installer Properties dialog box includes the following pages:

Product Information

Source Files

Source File Settings

Shortcuts

Additional Installers

Dialog Information

Registry

Hardware Configuration

Advanced

The bottom of the Installer Properties dialog box includes the following buttons:

• OK—Updates the project with the current build specification settings and closes the dialog box without performing a build. Clicking the OK button does not save the settings to disk. You must save the project in order to save the build specification settings.
• Cancel—Cancels the build specification settings you changed and closes the dialog box.
• Build—Updates the LabVIEW project with the current build specification settings, closes the dialog box, and builds the application, shared library, or source distribution with the current settings. Clicking the Build button does not save the settings to disk. You must save the project in order to save the build specification settings.

(Mac OS) You can use PackageMaker, included with Apple's Developer Tools, to create an installation package from the application files.

(Linux) You can use the Linux tar command to group the application files into a single file for distribution.