newUser101
22nd January 2004 20:45 UTC

replacing files after build installer
Hi,
I a new user to NSIS and would like to know if there is some way to do the following. I would like to build an installer one time on a windows pc and then later on replace some of the files in the installation with new files. I have an application that is built on solaris using java (server and client application) and it has a windows pc client that would be nice to have a windows installer. The client jar file changes on a nightly basis and I don't want to have to rebuild the entire installer on a windows pc everytime there is a change. Is there anyway to do this with NSIS?

Thanks.

Joost Verburg
22nd January 2004 20:58 UTC

No, you can't replace files in an existing compilation.

You can however use an emulator like Wine to run makensis on a Linux system.

Porting makensis (not the installer VM itself but the compiler) to another platform should also be possible, but that will require some work.

stnchris
23rd January 2004 00:06 UTC

you could use CopyFiles rather than File in your install script. Just built the install script once, and use that rarely-rebuilt version to install the nightly-rebuilt .jar files.

The .jar files would be external to the install script, install them like:

CopyFiles "$EXEDIR\jarfiles\file1.jar" "$INSTDIR\file1.jar"