suryakiran
9th May 2007 11:27 UTC

File Problems
Hello all,
I'm a newbie to NSIS. I'm trying to create an installer.

I've to install some dll files and I'm doing this.

File \path\to\directory\filename.exe

This works fine.

but if i save \path\to\directory in a variable

Var /GLOBAL path
StrCpy $path "\path\to\directory"

and then use File like this

File $path\filename.exe

This fails. NSIS compiler complains that no file with the name $path\filename.exe exists.

How can i pass user defined variables to File.

I've even tried File ${path}\filename.exe.

This also did not work.

Please help me out.

Thanks,
Surya

Afrow UK
9th May 2007 11:31 UTC

You are confusing run time variables with compile time constants. File is a compile time instruction and the value of $path is only set on run time and therefore your code will not work.

Use !define instead for compile time constants.

Stu