pgg1
10th August 2007 16:03 UTC

Self extracting executable
Hi

At present I have a compile directory which holds all my files along with my script. When I run the script I create a directory on my desktop and I copy all the files over to this directory along with the program executable that NSIS creates, everything in the directory makes up my program.

How do you get everything into a single executable? so all you have is one single executable with everything contained within, similar to the NSIS installation.

I have looked at makensis.nsi from the Examples directory within NSIS and to be honest it's not that clear to me.

Any advice will be a great help.

Cheers,

Paul

Afrow UK
10th August 2007 16:20 UTC

The File instruction is what you want.

Stu

pgg1
10th August 2007 16:36 UTC

Thanks, I am using the File instruction in places. But I mainly use the ZipDLL.dll The main reason I use the ZipDLL is because I package the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with my program and I need to extract all the files the JRE has. I use the ZipDLL like so:

Section "Extract Files"
  !insertmacro ZIPDLL_EXTRACT "Release_DLL.zip"     "$INSTDIR\bin\DLLs" <ALL>
  !insertmacro ZIPDLL_EXTRACT "Client.zip"          "$INSTDIR\Client"   <ALL>
  !insertmacro ZIPDLL_EXTRACT "JRE_v6.zip"          "$INSTDIR\JRE_v6"   <ALL>
  !insertmacro ZIPDLL_EXTRACT "SomeOtherZip.zip"    "$INSTDIR\Motorola" <ALL>
SectionEnd

Afrow UK
10th August 2007 17:33 UTC

There's no point using Zip files. Just put the files inside those Zip files in separate folders and then use File /r path\*.*.

With your method you're still going to have to compress the Zip files into your install with File instructions anyway meaning you'll be uncompressing the data twice.

Stu