Mosestycoon
9th February 2003 13:38 UTC

possibility to recursive include (files) from directories
  Dear community,

I am looking for the possibility to integrate directories, and all included files.
Right now I use

...(blah)

>SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\Path\\to\\prog"

>FILE "C:\\Path\\to\\file_1"

>FILE "C:\\Path\\to\\file_2"

>FILE "C:\\Path\\to\\file_n"

>...(blah) 

Is there another method to integrate files? A package with ~20.000 files makes this uncomfortable.

Be patient please, cos I'm new with NSIS and haven't found all the tricks :-)

MosesTycoon

kichik
9th February 2003 13:41 UTC

Sure, just use:

File/r C:pathto*.* 

Simple as that ;)

Mosestycoon
9th February 2003 13:54 UTC

Thx kichik,

I love this tool, every day a bit more....

Mosestycoon
9th February 2003 16:12 UTC

KICHIK -

Another quick question. How is the behavior of this Parameter "FILE /r"?

If there are several recursive directories, like "dir\sub-dir1\sub-dir2", what do I have to be aware?

Seems that the installer doubles (even tribles) the recommended size of space.

Does this parameter creates the sub-dirs as well?

(EXAMPLE:

  Section"MySQL4.0.10" secMySQL4

  SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\*.*"


>;MySQL Binaries

  SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4\\bin"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\bin\\*.*"


>;MySQL Data

  SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4\\data\\mysql"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\data\\mysql\\*.*"


>;MySQL Share

  SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4\\share\\charsets"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\share\\charsets\\*.*"


 SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4\\share\\english"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\share\\english\\*.*"


 SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\MySQL4\\share\\german"

 FILE /r "C:\\Path\\to\\MySQL4\\share\\german\\*.*" 

kichik
9th February 2003 16:19 UTC

If you add the /r flag (recursive) you don't need to add every sub-directory separately. /r means it will add every sub-directory too.

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\MySQL4"

>File /r "C:\Path\to\MySQL4\*.*" 

Is enough in your case.

Mosestycoon
9th February 2003 16:25 UTC

And it copies the files to the right destination (subdirectories)?

kichik
9th February 2003 16:27 UTC

Of course! Would you expect less? :D

Mosestycoon
9th February 2003 16:29 UTC

Thx!
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