Archive: multiple setup files...
multiple setup files...
Hi,
does anyone know, if the nullsoft installer is capable of writing out more than one executable file ?
Our problem is, that our setup file is very large (~2GB) which needs a lot of time if being extracted unter vista and/or from dvd.
Can I use multiple setup files and which would be the fastest way to decompress them if they all reside on a dvd.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Carsten
If you care most about speed, you should use CopyFiles.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.9.3.2
If you want to compress them, you can either use a zip/7z/whatever, or you can ExecWait a silent NSIS installer that unpacks to a path supplied as command-line parameter.
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixE.html#E.1.11
You could use one of the banner plugins if you want to show a Please Wait to the user, I guess.
Develop small setup.exe [few MBs] and add your data files into archive [cab zip 7z etc]
Create appropriate directories [if necessary] or do some actions [writing to registry etc] and then use plugin for unpacking files from archive.
I recommend to use CABSetup.dll which works fine with .cab archives, shows total progress [%], shows currently extracted file, remaining time...
All right. Thank you for the suggestions. I will try them out.
Regards,
Carsten