Rovastar
26th April 2002 23:52 UTC

Compilers??
Forgive my naivety as NSIS is ‘still’ new to me but could someone explain any downside of using the makensis-bz2.exe complier.

For me it makes the smallest exe –

Eg
total files 392 – total size 840k –

compiled exe (using the zip2exe thing) size 358k (nsis standard compiler) compared to 92k (bz2).

Should I create the exe using bz2? And if so in what cases do you NOT use bz2.?

I hope someone out there can enlighten me.:)

Rovastar

Smile2Me
27th April 2002 00:31 UTC

ZLib and Bzip2 are just two types of compression, each using its own method which you can find on their websites. As a lot of thread already have shown, both methods can create small installers. The smallest of the two often depends on the datatype of files and similarity of files.

So just compile a script with both compressions and choose the smallest, which can be different each time!

-Hendri.

Rovastar
27th April 2002 11:38 UTC

Thanks smile

I thought that with the compression about 80% then at of winzip and thought that there must be some big con in there somewhere. :) I don't know if I am naive or paranoid? :confused::):D

It has been a few years since my computers stuff at uni and didn't realise that the compression technology had moved on so much.