Shark321
8th December 2008 01:18 UTC

Nsis command line parameters
Hi!

is there a way to find out these 2 things in a nsis script:

1. name of the installer (e.g. myapp210.exe).

2. the command line parameters passed to the installer.

thanks in advance!

Comperio
8th December 2008 02:13 UTC

You should start by reading the help files included with NSIS.

Look at $EXEDIR, $EXEPATH, and $EXEFILE:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.2.3

To get command line options, use the GetParameters and GetOptions macros from the FileFunc.nsh header:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixE.html#E.1

FrozZerrer
16th September 2011 18:23 UTC

Parameters parsing
Hi, sorry to bump up this old thread. I just want to know how can I parse the parameters once I got them with GetParameters(). How can I have each one individually?

For exemple :
I want to pass in parameter a list of files. After I want to execute them in the installer. HOw can I put all the files names in a list to execute them when needed?

Thanks

MSG
16th September 2011 18:24 UTC

It's all in the manual.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixE.html#E.1.11
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixE.html#E.1.12

(You'll notice these two are listed directly next to each other.)

FrozZerrer
16th September 2011 18:33 UTC

Thanks for your response, it's appreciated. I already read this, but I can't manage to find how to get a list of file. My list doesn't have a fixed length. So, sometimes I have 5 subinstallers to execute and in another situation I can have only 3.

Command exemple :

Ex1 => C:\myInstaller.exe subInst1.exe subInst2.exe subInst3.exe
I want to get subInst1.exe subInst2.exe subInst3.exe and execute them.

Ex2 => C:\myInstaller.exe subInst1.exe subInst2.exe subInst3.exe subInst4.exe subInst5.exe
I want to get subInst1.exe subInst2.exe subInst3.exe subInst4.exe subInst5.exe and execute them.

Etc.

Any idea?

Yathosho
16th September 2011 20:17 UTC

parse the parameters manually using WordFind (or WordFind2x) or change your parameters to work with GetOptions