remleduff
29th April 2008 21:28 UTC

Trying to use makensis on linux
I followed these "instructions" to get nsis working under linux (I know it's probably not supported, but it seems to be mostly working).

http://www.xdevsoftware.com/blog/pos...on-Linux-.aspx

I am getting a weird warning that I don't see when runing makensis under Windows though. Here's a snippet of my nsi file.

# Installer functions
Function .onInit
    InitPluginsDir
    !insertmacro IsUserAdmin $0
    StrCpy $Administrator $0
    ${Select} $0
      ${Case} "1"
        StrCpy $INSTDIR "$%PROGRAMFILES%\$(^Name)"
        SetShellVarContext all
      ${Case} "0"
        StrCpy $INSTDIR "$%USERPROFILE%\$(^Name)"
    ${EndSelect}
FunctionEnd

unknown variable/constant "%PROGRAMFILES%\$(^Name)" detected, ignoring (/Project/installer.nsi:182)
unknown variable/constant "%USERPROFILE%\$(^Name)" detected, ignoring (/Project/installer.nsi:185)

kichik
29th April 2008 22:39 UTC

Windows environment variables aren't available on Linux. You've used $%PROGRAMFILES% which is the path to Program Files on your computer instead of $PROGRAMFILES which is the path on the user's computer.

Joel
30th April 2008 01:35 UTC

Wine can accept those variables :)

remleduff
30th April 2008 15:48 UTC

Hah, thanks. Everything becomes clear. ;)