freeDB_man
23rd January 2008 15:27 UTC

where do i get the linux version of NSIS from?
sorry if this is a bit basic but where do i get the linux version of NSIS from. i searched on nsis.sf.net n found nothing. also are there any editors that work on linux for NSIS?? I use UBUNTU and on my laptop i use SUSE

Red Wine
23rd January 2008 17:10 UTC

Assuming that you want to build nsis on a linux machine, see the documentation,

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixG.html#G

Joel
23rd January 2008 19:16 UTC

I also us ubuntu(7.10) and is in my repositories

sudo aptitude search nsis

freeDB_man
25th January 2008 16:35 UTC

thx alot.............i finally got it to work after a while

onad
6th February 2008 15:12 UTC

Great to see you are starting to use NSIS to create builds from Linux, welcome!

gregf
7th April 2008 11:32 UTC

building NSIS for Linux
Hi,

I'm new to the forum.

I've just built NSIS on Linux with a cross-compiler. Here is what I did:

I followed the instructions from www.mingw.org for installing a MinGW cross-compiler: the Cross-Hosted MinGW Build tool called x86-mingw-build.sh can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=2435

I installed it in /opt/mingw-toolchain-0.1

gregf:~$ ls /opt/mingw-toolchain-0.1/
bin/ doc/ i386-mingw32/ include/ info/ lib/ libexec/ local@ man/ usr@

I then installed scons locally:

gregf:~$ tar xzf ../scons-0.98.0.tar.gz
gregf:~$ cd scons-0.98.0
gregf:~$mkdir -p ~/usr/local/scons
gregf:~/scons-0.98.0 python setup.py install --prefix=/home/gregf/usr/local/scons

I added mingw and scons to my path:

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/gregf/usr/local/scons/bin:/opt/mingw-toolchain-0.1/bin


I downloaded nsis and used scons to build it:

gregf:~/NSIS$ tar jxf ../nsis-2.36-src.tar.bz2
gregf:~/NSIS$ cd nsis-2.36-src/
gregf:~/NSIS/nsis-2.36-src$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/gregf/usr/local/scons/bin:/opt/mingw-toolchain-0.1/bin
gregf:~/NSIS/nsis-2.36-src$ scons SKIPPLUGINS=System SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu"


Loads of output later:
...
i386-mingw32-g++ -o build/release/zip2exe/zip2exe.exe -mwindows -Wl,--file-alignment,512 -s build/release/zip2exe/main.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/adler32.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/crc32.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/inffast.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/inflate.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/inftrees.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/ioapi.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/unzip.o build/release/zip2exe/zlib/zutil.o build/release/zip2exe/res-rc.o -luser32 -lgdi32 -lcomctl32 -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32
scons: done building targets.

Looks promising. Haven't tried to use it yet though :-)

What would be a simple test to try?

I had to add SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu", which isn't mentioned in the Appendix G documentation. Otherwise the build fails with the following:

*** error: wx-config must be in the PATH to build NSIS Menu!

Not sure what the consequence of this is.

BTW I'm using version 2.4.3 of python:

gregf:~/NSIS/nsis-2.36-src$ python -V
Python 2.4.3


Cheers,

Greg

Originally posted by Red Wine
Assuming that you want to build nsis on a linux machine, see the documentation,

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixG.html#G

kichik
7th April 2008 19:53 UTC

NSIS Menu is not critical, so it's OK to skip it if you don't want it.