AnswerSeeker
14th June 2007 17:16 UTC

Need help generating makensis in Linux
I'm trying to follow the documentation that comes with NSIS 2.28 to generate an installer in Linux, but am not having much luck...

First, I installed SCONS v0.96.93 as specified in NSIS documentation. Then I installed NSIS v.2.28-src and tried to compile a 'makensis' file according to page G3 of the NSIS doc.

Running the two scons commands NSIS suggests works, but no STUBS folder gets generated so running 'makensis install <nsi_filename>' doesn't work, because no compression is available. I presume I need to create the makensis file using the standard 'scons install-compiler' command without any exclusions...

My first questions is, is gcc a valid cross compiler?
If so, when I try running 'makensis install-compiler' I get an error that suggest that the SConstruct file provided by NSIS is improperly formatted...

Does anyone have a working makensis binary for linux?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

kichik
15th June 2007 15:44 UTC

gcc is not s cross-copmiler so you can't build the stubs with it. As G3 says, you need to install the newly compiled makensis into a pre-built folder extracted from the ZIP'ed version of NSIS.