NSIS, On Linux Build.

How to build NSIS .nsi files on linux? I would think you would have to compile the NSIS MakeNSISW for linux, right? Then you could use it via command line. The reason I'm compileing on a linux box is simple due to what we run on our server. The installer would, have a CD key that would have to be inputed to get to the rest of the install process. For this to work, I'm going to have to compile a version of the installer each time with it's own key. Any help would rock.

There's no GUI for Linux, only the command line version - makensis. By default, it's installed into /usr/local/bin.

🙂 Thanks.

So I should be able to run the command `makensis` on the shell and have it make the installer. Where would I get the binary for the linux version from?

Also, any guidance you could give on a CD Key style authication would be very good.

Some distributions, like Debian and Gentoo, have makensis binaries in their repositories. For others, you'll have to build it yourself according to instructions in INSTALL and the documentation.