Headers for compiling NSIS

parasoul
14th February 2011 02:42 UTC

Headers for compiling NSIS
Hello,
I am trying to compile NSIS but I'm having problems locating the correct header files, as they are not included in the source I downloaded and I can't find them on the net.

Cannot open include file: 'nsis-version.h': No such file or directory
Cannot open include file: 'nsis-sconf.h': No such file or directory

those are the two I know are missing thus far. did I miss a step in downloading the NSIS SDK? And if so, where can I go to get it?

Thanks!

parasoul
14th February 2011 18:51 UTC

I also downloaded the svn, and looked in most all versions of it and still can't find the header files...

anyone?

Anders
14th February 2011 20:56 UTC

You need a somewhat recent Microsoft Platform/Windows SDK (2003 or newer probably), the zlib header files, scons (+python) and the nsis source, then run scons to compile. Those header files are probably generated on the fly by scons during the build...

parasoul
14th February 2011 21:52 UTC

Ah, I see. Thank you.

How do I open a SCons script? it's a FILE type, and it's not clear how to actually get SCons to execute it

Afrow UK
14th February 2011 22:44 UTC

SCons is a batch file in your Python Scripts folder. You run that with the NSIS folder path as an argument.

Stu

parasoul
14th February 2011 23:02 UTC

Ah okay. I figured out some. I'm having problems specifying the zlib directory. I downloaded zlib from http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/zlib...-win32-x86.zip

I put it into folder c:\zlib

I ran scons the following way:

c:\Python25\Scripts>scons --directory "C:\Users\Steven\Documents\NSIS" ZLIB_W32=
C:\zlib

and still it returns:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Mkdir("build\release\config")
Delete("nsis-14-Feb-2011.cvs")
Delete(".instdist")
Delete(".test")
Using Microsoft tools configuration
Checking for memset requirement... yes
Checking for C library gdi32... yes
Checking for C library user32... yes
Checking for C library pthread... no
Checking for C library iconv... no
Checking for C library version... yes
Checking for C library zdll... no
Checking for C library z... no
zlib (win32) is missing!

parasoul
14th February 2011 23:07 UTC

nevermind, I set it as an enviornmental variable and it worked that way. lets see if it will compile now.

parasoul
15th February 2011 05:18 UTC

despite my following the instructions for allowing the nsis menu to build (installing wxwidgets & setting env variable & running wx.bat), scons is still returning:

err(["build\release\NSIS Menu\NSIS"], ["Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nsismenu.cpp"
, "Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nslinks.cpp"])
*** error: WXWIN must be set to build NSIS Menu!
scons: *** [build\release\NSIS Menu\NSIS] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

is there a build that excludes the menu? or is there a way to skip the processing of the menu?

ThankS!

Anders
15th February 2011 05:44 UTC

You can use scons -h (or -H) to get a list of settings

I use something like: scons SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu" PREFIX=c:\newnsis install

parasoul
15th February 2011 06:35 UTC

hehe I took a less technical approach by deleting the SConscript file in \NSIS Menu\

all is well now. thanks for all the help ^.^