xtf
8th November 2004 18:18 UTC

2 -> 2.02: 10 kb bigger installer?
Hi,

I upgraded NSIS from 2 to 2.02 and now the generated installer is 10 kb bigger. I'm using LZMA compression.

Where did those 10 kb come from?
I saw nothing in the FAQ about this.

Joel
8th November 2004 20:20 UTC

10 KB is nothing.... :)

Maybe, source update, plugins update, etc..

Afrow UK
8th November 2004 20:25 UTC

Yep, 10kb is only an extra 3 seconds even on a 56k :D
But it is still a good question worthy of an answer...

-Stu

Takhir
9th November 2004 09:23 UTC

I have another result: 1 kB less package with lzma. IMHO this is compressor tricks, in most cases NSIS lzma and WinZip give similar results, but sometimes zip has up to 5% less size (and WinZip compression stability looks higher). Compiller window shows some compression results.

xtf
9th November 2004 16:39 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
Yep, 10kb is only an extra 3 seconds even on a 56k :D
But it is still a good question worthy of an answer...

-Stu

kichik
9th November 2004 20:25 UTC

Is it always 10k larger? What if you recompile? When using solid compression, which is turned on by default for lzma, dates are compressed along with everything else. These dates include file's last access date and some other dates I don't quite remember right now. Therefore, at each compile, the size might differ a bit.

xtf
10th November 2004 11:20 UTC

Yes, it's always 10 kb larger.
I compiled with the old version, installed the new version, compiled again and it was 10 kb larger while nothing else changed.

kichik
11th November 2004 19:23 UTC

Can you attach a complete example?

xtf
11th November 2004 19:34 UTC

If the script?
Sure: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.p...1.40&view=auto

kichik
11th November 2004 20:05 UTC

I have tried compiling the script with 2.0 and 2.02 and got a 10 bytes difference. I have only copied the old makensis.exe, but your script doesn't use anything else. Can you test it again?

xtf
11th November 2004 23:34 UTC

Just switching makensis.exe isn't enough. I installed 2.0 again and the .exe gets 10 kb smaller. I installed 2.02 again and it gets 10 kb larger.

kichik
12th November 2004 11:26 UTC

Ah, I see the change now. It's in UpgradeDLL.nsh. Joost changed it so it'd use a tool from the new Library.nsh. This tool replaces rundll32.exe because it doesn't always exist. If you want a smaller installer, even with this change, you can use lzma:

SetCompressor lzma

xtf
12th November 2004 21:56 UTC

I'm already using lzma.

BTW, why is lzma not the default compressor?

Olaf van der Spek
13th November 2004 16:35 UTC

Is that tool/rundll also required if you the DLL doesn't need to be registered?

Joost Verburg
15th November 2004 11:00 UTC

No, it's only for registering DLLs.

Olaf van der Spek
15th November 2004 11:48 UTC

!define UPGRADEDLL_NOREGISTER
Isn't that enough to exclude it?