How to skip an open file when compiling?

My script was failing compilation due to an already opened file by another process (sharing violation I guess):

File: failed opening file "C:\EIVA\NaviPac\Data\J047NPOUT611-3-923.npd"

!include: error in script: "NaviPacSections.nsh" on line 31

Error in script "C:\EIVA\NaviPac\bin\Scripts\navipac.nsi" on line 166 -- aborting creation process


In that case I would like the script to skip the file and continue compilation, not aborting. Is that possible?

Try:

File /nonfatal "filename.ext"

main purpose for the nonfatal switch is to not abort if a file don't exists

I've already tried that with no luck.

Section "Data" NAVIPAC_DATA
SetOverwrite on
File /nonfatal /r ${SCRIPT_ARG_SOURCEDIR}\Data
DetailPrint ">>> $INSTDIR\Data extracted..."
SectionEnd

Thanks anyway.

Please open a bug report about this.

Ok, done that under ID

1143585 Failing when compiling an already opened file

Just to let you know, I have closed down the bug report and marked it as Won't Fix. As said in the report:

During a discussion of a similar feature for !include, I've come to a conclusion that this is the correct behavior. The desired effect of /nonfatal, as also documented, is to ignore missing files. If the file is there and can't be opened, an error is very much justified.

You're more than welcome to submit a feature request for another flag that will ignore even these error.