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Faith Healer#

WinVer and variables troubles (+)

Good day everybody 🙂

I'm using NSIS not for long time (less than 4 months), often read this NSIS-related forum, read docs + using search (maybe miss something), etc.

I use NSIS for my MirandaIM pack installer, which globaly (for full installation) detects Windows version and depending on it installs needed/proper files.
I decided to advance/modify/optimize code, but got some troubles which I can't resolve, feeling dumb 🙁

So, I have files:
tabsrmm.dll
tabsrmm_unicode.dll
tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll
tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_xp.dll

so, I need to copy files:
* if WinVer is unknown then copy
tabsrmm.dll + tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll (but without "_2k" in the name)
* if WinVer is Win2k then copy
tabsrmm_unicode.dll + tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll (without "_2k" in the name)
if WinVer is WinXP/2k3 then copy
tabsrmm_unicode.dll + tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_xp.dll (without "_xp" in the name)

my code is
Function .onInit
   ReadRegStr $WinVer HKLM "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion
    StrCmp $WinVer "5.0" win2k
    StrCmp $WinVer "5.1" winxp
    StrCmp $WinVer "5.2" winxp
     StrCpy $icons "2k"
     StrCpy $unicode ""
         Goto endwinver
        win2k:
    StrCpy $icons "2k"
    StrCpy $unicode "_unicode"
         Goto endwinver
        winxp:
    StrCpy $icons "xp"
    StrCpy $unicode "_unicode"
        endwinver:
FunctionEnd 
Section "tabSRMM v0.9.9.9" SecTabSRMM
    SectionIn 1 2 3
    SetOverwrite on
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\Plugins"
    File "..\\Plugins\\tabsrmm${unicode}.dll"
    File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\\Icons\\tabsrmm_icons\\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_${icons}.dll"
SectionEnd
And it doesn't works - when I'm compilate this it complains:
File: "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_${icons}.dll" -> no files found.
in fact that files
tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll
tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_xp.dll
exist

Thank you for any help 🙂
Afrow UK#
You're getting confused with run-time and compile-time commands.

You need to do the checks inside your section, and jump over File calls for certain conditions.

-Stu
Faith Healer#edited
Hmmm... Looks like I don't understand 🙁
So, how to make it work globally, not only in one section...
It would be excellent to get short example (or hint) of it 🙂
kichik#
No, there is no way. The compiler can't guess every possible value the runtime variable might have and compress all of the matching files.
Faith Healer#
kichik, but I've defined exactly:
     StrCpy $icons "2k" 
     StrCpy $unicode "" 
         Goto endwinver 
        win2k: 
    StrCpy $icons "2k" 
    StrCpy $unicode "_unicode" 
         Goto endwinver 
        winxp: 
    StrCpy $icons "xp" 
    StrCpy $unicode "_unicode"
🙂))
so, $icons can have 2 values = "2k" or "xp", $unicode can have only 2 values too - "" (empty) and "_unicode".

I totaly dislike old my code:
1st var:
Section "tabSRMM 0.9.9.91" tabsrmm
    SectionIn 1 2 3
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\Plugins"
    SetOverwrite on
    File "..\\Plugins\\smileyadd.dll"
     ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion
        StrCmp $R0 '5.0' unicode
        StrCmp $R0 '5.1' unicode
        StrCmp $R0 '5.2' unicode
                File "..\Plugins\tabsrmm.dll"
                    Goto tabicons
                    unicode:
                File "..\Plugins\tabsrmm_unicode.dll"
                    Goto tabicons
            tabicons:
     ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion
        StrCmp $R0 '5.1' xpicons
        StrCmp $R0 '5.2' xpicons
                File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll"
                    Goto endtabsrmm
                    xpicons:
                File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_xp.dll"
                    Goto endtabsrmm
                        endtabsrmm:
SectionEnd
2nd var:
Section "tabSRMM 0.9.9.91" tabsrmm
    SectionIn 1 2 3
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\\Plugins"
    SetOverwrite on
    File "..\\Plugins\\smileyadd.dll"
     ReadRegStr $R0 HKLM "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion" CurrentVersion
        StrCmp $R0 '5.0' win2k
        StrCmp $R0 '5.1' winxp
        StrCmp $R0 '5.2' winxp
                File "..\Plugins\tabsrmm.dll"
                File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll"
                    Goto endtabsrmm
                    win2k:
                File "..\Plugins\tabsrmm_unicode.dll"
                File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_2k.dll"
                    Goto endtabsrmm
                    winxp:
                File "..\Plugins\tabsrmm_unicode.dll"
                File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "..\Icons\tabsrmm_icons\tabsrmm_icons_faith_brq_xp.dll"
                        endtabsrmm:
SectionEnd
So, maybe fix/add it in NSIS to work with it? 🙂
kichik#
No such feature will be added to NSIS. As I've said in the previous reply, the compiler can't guess which values the runtime variable will contain. For all it knows, the runtime variable can depend on the user's host name.

Best you can do is create a macro and insert it three times with different parameters.
!macro install srmm_postfix icons_postfix

File "..Plugins\tabsrmm_${srmm_postfix}.dll"

File /oname=tabsrmm_icons.dll "tabsrmm_icons_${icons_postfix}.dll"

!macroend

!insertmacro install "" ""

!insertmacro install "unicode" "2k"

!insertmacro install "unicode" "xp"