LogEx plugin

I'm building on VC6, so not all settings are available.
Changing the ones I can doesn't fix it.
This is part of the errorlog:

NOTE: WINVER has been defined as 0x0500 or greater which enables
Windows NT 5.0 and Windows 98 features. When these headers were released,
Windows NT 5.0 beta 1 and Windows 98 beta 2.1 were the current versions.
For this release when WINVER is defined as 0x0500 or greater, you can only
build beta or test applications. To build a retail application,
set WINVER to 0x0400 or visit http://www.microsoft.com/msdn/sdk
to see if retail Windows NT 5.0 or Windows 98 headers are available.
See the SDK release notes for more information.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1050) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1051) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1052) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1061) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1062) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1063) : error C2081: 'LONG_PTR' : name in formal parameter list illegal
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1217) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'UINT'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1217) : error C2491: 'IsValidCodePage' : definition of dllimport function not allowed
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1217) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1217) : error C2085: 'CodePage' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1222) : error C2085: 'GetACP' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1227) : error C2085: 'GetOEMCP' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1233) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'UINT'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1233) : error C2085: 'GetCPInfo' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1233) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'UINT'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1233) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'CodePage'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1234) : error C2085: '__out' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1234) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'LPCPINFO'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1234) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'lpCPInfo'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1234) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1240) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'UINT'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1240) : error C2085: 'GetCPInfoExA' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1240) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'UINT'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1240) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'CodePage'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1241) : warning C4042: '__in' : has bad storage class
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1241) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'DWORD'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1241) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'dwFlags'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1242) : error C2085: '__out' : not in formal parameter list
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1242) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'LPCPINFOEXA'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1242) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ',' before identifier 'lpCPInfoEx'
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1242) : error C2059: syntax error : ')'
...
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include\winnls.h(1312) : fatal error C1003: error count exceeds 100; stopping compilation

Maybe the file is damaged? You could try reinstalling or upgrading.

Stu

NULL-char at the end of each line

Hi jpderuiter,

I've just tried your LogEx-plugin and there is one minor flaw.
I use your Unicode version and there is an NULL-char at the end of each line in the log-file.

LogEx::Init false "$EXEDIR\InstallLog.txt"

LogEx::Write true true "<> Dies ist ein äöüÄÖÜß LogEintrag!"

LogEx::Close

Please have a look at the picture:


If I'm correct, the plugin is written in C and C uses ASCIIZ-strings.
Do you strip the end-marker off the string before you copy it to the log-file?

Is there any chance you can fix this in the near future? 🙂

Thank you very much,
Michael.

Fortunately I suddenly saw the light, and found that I had to put the SDK include Library at the top of the list of include directories in vs6.0.

Anyway, I compiled a new version of this plugin, check the wiki:


I fixed both bugs, the one from matthiasb (mentioned 25th august 2010) and the one from steinbohrer.
I don't have time to test it thoroughly, so if you find any problems, please tell me.

jpderuiter

Hi, I have probably discovered a bug. In function Log::Write, you don't remove the parameter from the stack if the file handle is not correct, which leads to stack corruption. May be present in other places, haven't checked.

Hi hnedka,

thanks for pointing that out.
I fixed it, and uploaded v0.9.1 to the wiki page.

Timestamps in Logs?

Hi, a very useful plugin!
Is there a way to embed the timestamps when I do a LogEx::Write?

Hi,

not via the LogEx plugin, but you can get the current time with the Time plugin (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Time_plug-in), or using the system plugin (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...ame-using-nsis).

I am currently doing development to test out support for Windows 8 (Windows Developer Preview). Is there any chance that LogEx will be updated to support Windows 8 (Windows version 6.2.8102) anytime soon? 🙂

Thanks

I'm not sure what you mean.
Is the LogEx plugin not working on Windows 8?

Yeah, I had plugins and forums confused. You're good. I am apparently looking at the wrong place. ><

Thanks though.

Prepend?

I'm using NSIS as a software updater for my company's applications. I am currently using an application called at the end of the NSIS application to create a log file but I would like to include this process in the NSIS application. To do this I need to be able to prepend my strings rather than append them. This will keep the latest update information at the top of the file. Can this be done?

Hi Joe,

no, you cannot prepend text to an existing logfile.
What you can do is create a new logfile when the installer starts, and when finished append the previous created logfile.

jpderuiter