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Comprased Installation

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babarmoin#

Comprased Installation

Hello thir

i have an software which has lots of media files and its player ( size 7GB) know i want to create setup with compress format and during the installation the setup will decompress it

how can i do that

Regards
Babar
Afrow UK#
NSIS installers cannot be larger than 2GB.
You can store the files in a seperate 7z archive and extract the files at run time with the 7-Zip stand alone command line utility.

Are you a developer who uses NSIS to distribute your application? Are you a Winamp plug-in developer who wants to use NSIS to distribute your plug-in? Have suggestions for other people like you? This is the place.


-Stu
dandaman32#
That might not be a good idea since it would be hard to show the progress of the installation without showing an ugly console window. I would recommend separating the various media files into categories (if possible) and making invididual installers for each category, then executing those at runtime using the /D= switch to set the installation directory.

-dandaman32