blh83
27th January 2011 17:53 UTC

special build crashes with maintenace page
I need the long string build as a customer had his PATH hosed :stare:. However, when I extracted the executable and stubs folder and tried to build, I would get a Windows error saying makensis has stopped working. The last few lines of the compile are:

!define: "UMUI_MAINTENANCEPAGE_MODIFY"=""
!define: "UMUI_MAINTENANCEPAGE_REMOVE"=""
!insertmacro: UMUI_PAGE_MAINTENANCE

This is when the window pops up so I assume it is the maintenance page causing the problem. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? I realize this isn't a lot of detail about my script but I am hoping it is a known issue with an easy fix. I have to have this done today so I am looking for any suggestions or questions no matter how trivial they may seem.

Would it make a difference if I compiled NSIS myself? If so, can someone point me to the file location of NSIS_MAX_STRLEN so I don't have to go digging for it. I do have SCONS and Python so if this will be the quicker route I will try it. Thanks.

Anders
27th January 2011 21:18 UTC

1) This is probably a bug in UMUI or one of the plugins it uses, it is not uncommon for plugins to (wrongly) hardcode the buffer size to 1024

2) I have seen this %Path% issue so many times now that it really is time for someone to rewrite the wiki samples to use raw win32 api calls without length limitations.

3) NSIS_MAX_STRLEN can be set with a scons parameter IIRC, running scons -h (or -H) should show a list of nsis compile options