Automatic logging of files?

Here's the story (sorry, it's a bit too long, but I want to be sure that everything's clear):
I use "external" nsis installer: setup.exe and Instdata dir is packed into one with WinRar sfx. During install they're both unpacked to tempdir, and setup.exe copies files from Instdata using CopyFiles. So far so good.
Uninstaller reads filenames from $INSTDIR\files.lst, where files.lst is a text list of all the files that must be removed:

file1.exe

file2.dll

Data\file3.dat

Data\Sound\file4.wav

And so on (~300 entries).

Now the problem is that I make files.lst myself and supply it in Instdata\files.lst. So being lazy (and it's not very comfortable, because the only thing that changes in the package are files in Instdata, and sometimes i'm not the last one who adds files to package) I thought:
"Wouldn't it be cool, if setup.exe on the run scans $EXEDIR\Instdata and automatically generates Instdata\files.lst" or something similar. But I'm not programmer, in truth I have 0 experience in this field. I've tried to write using Findfirst & Findnext, but it didn't work (as if I'm surprised) - wasn't working on subdirs and in the end crashed anyways, so I have no idea whatsoever. 🧟

TIA,
galil

Example:

Function ScanDir

  Exch $2

  Push $0

  Push $1



  FindFirst $0 $1 "$2\*.*"

  IfErrors done

  loop:

    StrCmp $1 "." next

    StrCmp $1 ".." next

    Push "$2\$1"

    Call ScanDir

    DetailPrint "$2\$1"

    next:

      FindNext $0 $1

      IfErrors done loop



  done:

    Pop $1

    Pop $0

    Pop $2

FunctionEnd



Section "Scan $TEMP"

  Push $TEMP

  Call ScanDir

SectionEnd

You can easily change this to write to a file instead of printing it.
Removing the full path can also be arranged with so much effort.

Thank you so much for your reply! 👍 🙂

However I can't get your example script to work 🙁
When run, it displays only:

E:\TEMP\TEMP
Completed

So I changed -
FindFirst $0 $1 $2*.*
to
FindFirst $0 $1 $2\*.*
- and removed "Call ScanDir" line from function itself.

So now it kinda works, but it has two flaws: lists directory names too (I don't need that, but I guess I could remove those entries by searching for "." in the string) and, most importantly, doesn't scan subdirectories.
So do I got your example wrong or what? 😕

TIA,
galil

Try the code again, I have mistakenly used [ php ] which is known to remove slashes. It's now using [ code ] which doesn't remove anything.

Tried it, now it only lists 1 file from temp dir, like:

E:\TEMP\TERRA FIRMA (Lara's Mix).mp3
Completed

When I removed that call to itself:
...
Push "$2\$1"
Call ScanDir; <- why this? I removed it.
DetailPrint "$2\$1"
...
, then it lists all files. But it doesn't scan subdirectories of Temp. 🤪

TIA,
galil

The exact code, as written in the above post, works perfectly fine. Please try the attachment.

Your compiled exe works fine.

But when I try to compile it myself using the script I attached,
it doesn't work.
I guess I'm missing something again. 🙁

TIA,
galil

PS: I'm sorry for being so retarded.

It's the exact same script as mine... What version are you using? If it's a version from CVS get the latest CVS version, if it's a version that's older than b3 get b3, and if it's b3 get latest CVS version.

I'm using b3.

I'll try latest CVS, downloading atm.

Woohoo, it works with CVS! Strange why it didn't with b3 though. Anyway, I'm so excited I gonna run around the office in circles, thank you so much! 👍

Now I only need to change it to my needs. To get rid of that full path part, and I also don't need directory names included in the list. I guess I'll go check the Archive for some examples..

TIA,
galil