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makensis on Linux - limited support?

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badger101101#

makensis on Linux - limited support?

I have compiled NSIS 2.35 on 64-bit Linux, which required slight modification of the source code (I was careful to not adversely affect byte alignment - I can submit a patch if you're interested). I am now working to create my installer but it seems that Linux builds of NSIS merely support basic installer functions - no support for things like "installoptions".

Is this the case?
kichik#
It supports almost everything under Linux, including InstallOptions and nsDialogs. Only the System plug-in and some font related features are disabled.

What changes to the source code did you add?
badger101101#
Here's a diff of the source tree. The primary problem is the fact that a DWORD is still only 4 bytes on 64-bit Linux. You may need some conditional logic in Platform.h where ULONG_PTR is defined.
badger101101#
I'm glad to hear InstallOptions is supported. I am getting this error:

!insertmacro: MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY
Invalid command: InstallOptions::dialog
Error in macro INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY on macroline 4
Error in macro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY on macroline 5
kichik#
You probably forgot to build and install the plug-ins. Extract the pre-built ZIP as instruction in Appendix G.