Hi
I have been reading a very good Firefox build extension tutorial. At the end he tells you how to do the final packaging step by using the "Cygwin tool set" a commandline program which is supposed to be able to zip your file to a format with the xpi extension. However the commandline is telling me to use is not working. What follows is a cut and paste of the command he is telling me to use with the "Cygwin tool set" and the response of this toolset.
Owner@marc--home ~
$ cd c
ackagingextensions
Owner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
Owner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$ zip tuttoolbar.xpi install.rdf chrome.manifest chrome/tuttoolbar.jar
bash: zip: command not found
Owner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$
Well obviously I should not be getting the "bash: zip: command not found" message if I am doing everything right and the program is ready to go for purposes of zipping to xpi files(extension format.) So going to the "Cygwin tool set" site (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cygwin.com/">http://cygwin.com/</a><!-- m -->) I am not finding any additional add-ons which are required for zipping. So maybe there are but I need help as to just what's going wrong. The page the tutorial where I am being told to do this, near the bottom, of the page is here. (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/ch_7.html">http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar ... /ch_7.html</a><!-- m -->) I would really appreciate any help I can get with this one as I have been working on this tutorial for a longer time than I would care to mention.
Very sincerely
Marc
I have been reading a very good Firefox build extension tutorial. At the end he tells you how to do the final packaging step by using the "Cygwin tool set" a commandline program which is supposed to be able to zip your file to a format with the xpi extension. However the commandline is telling me to use is not working. What follows is a cut and paste of the command he is telling me to use with the "Cygwin tool set" and the response of this toolset.
Owner@marc--home ~
$ cd c
ackagingextensionsOwner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
Owner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$ zip tuttoolbar.xpi install.rdf chrome.manifest chrome/tuttoolbar.jar
bash: zip: command not found
Owner@marc--home /cygdrive/c/packagingextensions
$
Well obviously I should not be getting the "bash: zip: command not found" message if I am doing everything right and the program is ready to go for purposes of zipping to xpi files(extension format.) So going to the "Cygwin tool set" site (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://cygwin.com/">http://cygwin.com/</a><!-- m -->) I am not finding any additional add-ons which are required for zipping. So maybe there are but I need help as to just what's going wrong. The page the tutorial where I am being told to do this, near the bottom, of the page is here. (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/ch_7.html">http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar ... /ch_7.html</a><!-- m -->) I would really appreciate any help I can get with this one as I have been working on this tutorial for a longer time than I would care to mention.
Very sincerely
Marc