talonx
15th April 2008 07:07 UTC

NSIS windows under wine on linux
Hello,
I'm running the NSIS windows compiler using wine 0.9.36 on fedora linux 5.
The command looks something like the following

wine /home/talonx/nsis/makensis.exe /home/talonx/myscript.nsi

Now, myscript.nsi exists in /home/talonx. Running the above command shows the nsis usage message instead of compiling, which tells me that the path to the script is not being passed to nsis at all.

If I run it with the relative path as

wine /home/talonx/nsis/makensis.exe myscript.nsi

from /home/talonx, it works fine. Anything I am doing wrong here? I cannot used a relative path for obvious reasons.

Regards
talonx

talonx
15th April 2008 07:22 UTC

Ok figured it out just now :)
NSIS uses options of the form /option, so the path /home/talonx/... gets passed to nsis as an option. The way to get around this is to use -- just after the nsis call. As in

    wine /home/talonx/nsis/makensis.exe -- /home/talonx/myscript.nsi

Hope this helps someone else.

Regards
talonx