rmccue
15th March 2006 08:13 UTC

CopyFiles not copying in sub dirs
I am trying to copy all zips in all sub directories. I am using:

CopyFiles "$EXEDIR\*.zip" "$INSTDIR\"

Why isn't it working?
Also, I want to include skinning with Wansis as optional so someone can download the skinning pack, unzip it and skin away. How would I do this?

RobGrant
15th March 2006 08:51 UTC

You're telling it to copy all zip files in $EXEDIR to the install directory; your command doesn't mention subdirectories. Just as CopyFiles "$EXEDIR\hello.txt" "$INSTDIR\" won't try and find hello.txt in any subdirectories in $EXEDIR.

You want to use something like the Locate function, and put a CopyFiles in the callback.

Instructor
15th March 2006 09:08 UTC

Name "Output"
OutFile "Output.exe"

!include "FileFunc.nsh"
!insertmacro Locate

Section
        StrCpy $R0 "C:\ftp"   ;Directory copy from
        StrCpy $R1 "C:\ftp2"  ;Directory copy into
        StrCpy $R2 "*.zip"    ;Wildcard
        StrLen $R3 $R0
        CopyFiles /SILENT '$R0\$R2' '$R1'

        ${Locate} "$R0" "/L=D" "LocateCallback"

        IfErrors 0 +2
        MessageBox MB_OK 'error'
SectionEnd

Function LocateCallback
        StrCpy $1 $R8 '' $R3
        CreateDirectory '$R1$1\$R7'
        CopyFiles /SILENT '$R9\$R2' '$R1$1\$R7'

        Push $0
FunctionEnd

rmccue
16th March 2006 07:46 UTC

Thanks Instructor, but I just want it to put all in the same directory. What do I change?

rmccue
16th March 2006 07:49 UTC

I changed:

CopyFiles /SILENT '$R9\$R2' '$R1$1\$R7'

to

CopyFiles /SILENT '$R9\$R2' '$INSTDIR'