how to build nsis in vc6?

lkouAugust 23, 2006 at 9:11 PM#

how to build nsis in vc6?🙂

JasonFriday13August 23, 2006 at 9:24 PM#

NSIS version 2.06 and under used VC6 to compile. Version 2.07 and above now use scons.

lkouAugust 23, 2006 at 9:27 PM#

Originally posted by JasonFriday13
NSIS version 2.06 and under used VC6 to compile. Version 2.07 and above now use scons.

thanks

how to use or set scons?

JasonFriday13August 23, 2006 at 10:05 PM#

There is alot of software to download, but it is all free so it's all good.

You will need:
Microsoft Platform SDK Server 2003 SP1 (387MB)
Microsoft Toolkit 2003 (27MB, about)
Python 2.x (I use 2.4.1) (don't know the size)
Scons 0.96.9x (I use 0.96.91)
NSIS source code.

Note: Also make sure the python directory is in your 'path'.

First, open a command prompt, then change the directory to where the NSIS source is.
To build the source, type: scons MSTOOLKIT=YES
To build an installation package, type: scons MSTOOLKIT=YES dist-installer
To build a zip, type: scons MSTOOLKIT=YES dist-zip
To build both, type: scons MSTOOLKIT=YES dist

Hope this helps.

lkouAugust 23, 2006 at 10:06 PM#



D:\nsis>scons.bat

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

  File "SConstruct", line 326



    defenv['INSTVER'] += ' %sDVER_MAJOR=$VER_MAJOR' % optchar



                       ^

🙁 its error

i install Python161 and scons-0.96.91

JasonFriday13August 23, 2006 at 10:20 PM#

You may need an updated python program.

lkouAugust 23, 2006 at 11:03 PM#

thank you JasonFriday13

JasonFriday13August 23, 2006 at 11:25 PM#

No problem. Always here to help (if I can).

kichikAugust 25, 2006 at 9:06 AM#

You don't need the Platform SDK or the VC toolkit. It's possible to build using only VC6. In fact, that's how I build releases. Platform SDK is, however, recommended, to avoid the CopyFiles crash bug.