neotwix
22nd November 2006 14:56 UTC

Linux setup
Hi,

I am sure, I will a have stupid question, but I need to ask ;)

I use nsis for my job, for two years now, and I totally addict of it. So just thnaks you for that.
So my question, I generate the setup with Linux version of
nsis compiler. In the future I will need to have to make Linux setup too. And I don't want to be dependent of a package system, so no deb or rpm file.
For the moment the only tool I found is makeself (the archive in compressed and save under a script shell.
we launch this script shell and the data save inside is installed...
... but it's not as fun as nsis... So do you have plan to make
an Total linux nsis version ?
And if not. do you think I should be an hard work to add this support on the linux nsis compiler ?

Thanks.

Comm@nder21
22nd November 2006 16:29 UTC

it IS hard, because nsis makes heavy use of winapi and thus the creation of a linux version would need a lot of work, you would basically need to rewrite 'bout 50% of the code i guess.

kichik
23rd November 2006 19:33 UTC

Besides that, the scripting language is very Windows oriented. What would you have $PROGRAMFILES replaced for? What would you do with registry manipulations? I don't see how a script would be compilable on both Linux and Windows.

A new version for Linux with other constants and commands would be nice, but I don't want to get into that. It'd take a lot of work and many other solutions already exist.