frodrum
1st July 2004 07:31 UTC

Help me pls!!
Hi i am a newbie to programing and I am currently a student who has been posted to a company for attachment. My task in this company is to create an installation disk for one of its applications. First I have to create an installer to install a small batch file. It is a HelloWorld class which i created using java. But i have no idea how to package it into an installer. I have read the NSIS manual and have gone through the forum but don't understand most of the stuff there as the only programming knowledge I have is of Java. I hope you could give me some examples on how to make an installer for a batch file. Thanks!!

deguix
1st July 2004 11:15 UTC

You can find scripts that help you inside Examples folder inside your NSIS dir, however I recommend looking inside Examples\Modern UI as the Modern UI adds more beauty to your installers.

The simplest installer you can create is this below:

OutFile a.exe

Section
SectionEnd

michaelmross
1st July 2004 16:04 UTC

See what each of the scripts in the NSIS\Examples folder does. It's very easy to adapt an existing script. Also try the great wizard that comes with http://hmne.sourceforge.net/

frodrum
2nd July 2004 03:25 UTC

Ok! Thanks for all your help.I really appreciate it.:)

frodrum
5th July 2004 05:04 UTC

Hey it's me again. I have a question regarding one of the examples given in the NSIS examples folder. This is from example2. Here's the code:

Section "Example2 (required)"

SectionIn RO

; Set output path to the installation directory.
SetOutPath $INSTDIR

; Put file there
File "..\makensisw.exe"

For the last line (File "..\makensisw.exe"), is the makensisw.exe a file that already exists, one that will be created by the installer or is it the file that i would like to include in my installer.

And also to change the directory of $INSTDIR i think i need to use StrCpy but i am not sure how to use it. Could someone give me an example on how to do this.

Thanks again!

deguix
5th July 2004 07:34 UTC

is the makensisw.exe a file that already exists, one that will be created by the installer or is it the file that i would like to include in my installer.

  Quote from example2.nsi:
  ; Set output path to the installation directory.
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR
  
  ; Put file there
  File "..\makensisw.exe"

And also to change the directory of $INSTDIR i think i need to use StrCpy but i am not sure how to use it. Could someone give me an example on how to do this.

StrCpy $INSTDIR "C:\YourDir"

frodrum
5th July 2004 07:56 UTC

Ok thanks deguix...really appreciate your help.