Zinthose
8th June 2010 17:04 UTC

Simple Tip To Add NSIS Source to Package
  For those of you that love open source or just need a simple way to include the source code for your packages.

Just add this to the end of all your packages. It will be included as a file resource and if you use 7zip to extract your package you will find your source included. It's very basic but works great if you don't rely on a lot of custom includes.

Section/o -SourceCode

    File`${__FILE__}`

>SectionEnd 

>

Enjoy :D

Wizou
8th June 2010 17:29 UTC

Personally, I use the similar following trick instead :

Goto +2
File "myfile.nsi" 

Zinthose
8th June 2010 18:00 UTC

Originally posted by Wizou

Goto+2

File "myfile.nsi" 

Ah nice, with the goto added it assures that it will never be extracted. Nice trick ;)

demiller9
8th June 2010 20:45 UTC

I put my source in with code like this:

Function .oninit
...
SetOutPath $PLUGINSDIR\Src
File ${__FILE__}
File buildnum.nsh
File ... 
SetOutPath $Temp ; don't leave working dir in $Pluginsdir or it can't be deleted
FunctionEnd

This allows me to get the source from %temp%\ns????.tmp\Src without using 7-zip. Then the source will be deleted after the installer finishes.