I made very custom plugin for my Self-Extractor wizard thingy, what somebody may find useful. It uses makensis.exe to compile NSIS files and also can unpack zip files. Since I doubt that nobody actually needs this kind of plugin, I separated the functions to two different plugins.
The plugins are made out of NSIS zip2exe tool. I don't know if there is some license issues in this, but let me know if there is.
The zip plugin shows a small progress "banner" and the NSIS console plugin shows a console window with makensis output. Check the readme for all the features and more info.
Also I would appreciate if someone could recompile the dlls, because Borland C/C++ compiler produce relatively very large files (see the readme). And if somebody knows a way how I can help my self in this issue, please tell me! 😉
Makensis console / unzip dll
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I forgot to add zlib sources in that package, and now that damn thing don't fit in attachment size limit. 🤨
🤨 Sorry! Heres the zlib sources.
OK heres the dlls again, recompiled with MinGWStudio (much smaller size).
Screenshot
Features unzip plugin:
- shows small "banner" with progress bar, percent text or "file count" text (you have to recompile the dll to change this. Look in the resource.h)
- cancel unzip (right click menu)
- left click the dialog to drag it a round
Ussage: Nzipdll::nzip [ZIP_FILE] [UOTPUT_DIR]
Features NSIS console plugin:
- shows a console window with makensis output
- left click dialog to drag it a round
Ussage: Nmwdll::nmwMakensis [MAKENSIS_EXE_PATH] [NSI_FILE]
You still need the zlib from post above if you want to recompile.
Screenshot
Features unzip plugin:
- shows small "banner" with progress bar, percent text or "file count" text (you have to recompile the dll to change this. Look in the resource.h)
- cancel unzip (right click menu)
- left click the dialog to drag it a round
Ussage: Nzipdll::nzip [ZIP_FILE] [UOTPUT_DIR]
Features NSIS console plugin:
- shows a console window with makensis output
- left click dialog to drag it a round
Ussage: Nmwdll::nmwMakensis [MAKENSIS_EXE_PATH] [NSI_FILE]
You still need the zlib from post above if you want to recompile.
You can compile using the free version of VC. The documentation contains some links.
Update!
Probably last update for these plugins.
New things:
- (fix) Unzip plugin now always creates the out dir.
- New flag to change unzip plugin banner (recompiling not needed anymore)
- Better error handling
- precompiled "wizard" plugin added to the package
- decent examples added to the package 🙂
Screenshot
Again if you want to compile the sources, you need the zlib package from post above or use the one which comes with NSIS zip2exe source.
Probably last update for these plugins.
New things:
- (fix) Unzip plugin now always creates the out dir.
- New flag to change unzip plugin banner (recompiling not needed anymore)
- Better error handling
- precompiled "wizard" plugin added to the package
- decent examples added to the package 🙂
Screenshot
Again if you want to compile the sources, you need the zlib package from post above or use the one which comes with NSIS zip2exe source.
And here's the attachment 😁
Could you post those plug-ins to the wiki? Things posted only in the forums get lost easily.
Ok, I'll do that. I guess, any contribution to wiki is valuable. :/
Kichik thanks, but no thanks. VC++ would be the ultimate solution, but it needs .NET Framework even for install and I try to keep .NET Framework out of my machine long as possible. (not the greatest fan of .NET)
Kichik thanks, but no thanks. VC++ would be the ultimate solution, but it needs .NET Framework even for install and I try to keep .NET Framework out of my machine long as possible. (not the greatest fan of .NET)
The VC Toolkit doesn't really need .NET. It installs it, but you can uninstall it and VC will keep on working.
Hey thanks for the note. 🙂