tictox
11th September 2007 11:11 UTC

two tutorials please?
Hi Im still a novice nsis user , and have relied on the HM NIS EDIT wizard , to generate my intial install scripts , I normally edit them there after , by adding other files to the installer and paths etc.. I have looked at the documentation that came with nsis but i find most of the examples extremley un-informative to a new learner , eg..

i what to install another app that handles sync with outlook express with my application named redemption, so i manged to get this going with this script:

Section SECOUTLOOK
ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\Install.exe"'
SectionEnd

but the splash screen is very ugly, and i have read redemptions site saying it is possible to mark the redemption dll as self registering .. so i searched the nsis documetation for a means to do this, and the best i found was InstallLib macro as this dll is reffered to as a library on the site ..

so nsis documentation gives me:

libtype shared install localfile destfile tempbasedir

so libtype i presume is:
REGDLLTLB/as per choices available this seems to be what i would need.

shared:
I think it is shared so documentation states i need:
$VARNAME/is this the exact variable name needed or can it be anything?? what do i set this value to??

IM also keen to learn about the registry writing that is been performed ..

!define PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\pps.exe"
!define PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\${PRODUCT_NAME}"
//
//
other content here......
//
//
followed by some post writing:

Section -Post
WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\uninst.exe"
WriteRegStr HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}" "" "$INSTDIR\pps.exe"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayName" "$(^Name)"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "UninstallString" "$INSTDIR\uninst.exe"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayIcon" "$INSTDIR\pps_final.ico"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "DisplayVersion" "${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "URLInfoAbout" "${PRODUCT_WEB_SITE}"
WriteRegStr ${PRODUCT_UNINST_ROOT_KEY} "${PRODUCT_UNINST_KEY}" "Publisher" "${PRODUCT_PUBLISHER}"
SectionEnd

why is there no break down of this build been generated??
and what each item is, and what its purpose is??

Im going to end my rant here , if some experienced nsis users/moderators read this .. please give me links to better tutorials, i hate somebody just telling me how to do it, whats the point of that .. it need explanations for the AI to become my own logic i can apply.

If there is no other documentation and someone has the time to explain the above two scenarios .. it would be appriciated


Thanks

kichik
15th September 2007 11:07 UTC

InstallLib can install DLL files that might be in use and handle everything automatically. If you need to install a DLL to your application's directory that'd be used only by your application, RegDLL would be enough. If InstallLib is what you need, REGDLL and non-shared is probably what you're looking for. Most DLL files don't contain type-libraries (TLB) and it sounds like your DLL is only for your program so it's not shared.

I don't understand your second question. What do you want to write to the registry? Just a string? You can use WriteRegStr for that. It's in the documentation and the Wiki, forums and web contain hundreds of usage examples.