i am experiencing a small problem on win7 and vista.
when i want to install from a mapped network share,
the $exedir is always the unc path for this share. even if it is mapped. The behaviour is different (correct) on all other supported operating systems. perhaps there is something new in vista / win7...
i made a small test. i created a visual basic application that will only do this statement:
msgbox app.path when i then execute the same executable from the same place but using the nsis test.exe, the visual basic application will also ouput the unc path for the mapped drive.
i would like to have the mapped path here.
i even used 2 different functions in nsis to get the correct result. but i will always get that unc path.
attached is a small test script for you ...
Name "test"
OutFile "test.exe"
Function GetExePath
!define GetExePath `!insertmacro GetExePathCall`
!macro GetExePathCall _RESULT
Call GetExePath
Pop ${_RESULT}
!macroend
Push $0
Push $1
Push $2
StrCpy $0 $EXEDIR
System::Call 'kernel32::GetLongPathNameA(t r0, t .r1, i 1024)i .r2'
StrCmp $2 error +2
StrCpy $0 $1
Pop $2
Pop $1
Exch $0
FunctionEnd
Section
Exec vb6path.exe
${GetExePath} $R0
MessageBox MB_OK "$R0"
System::Call "kernel32::GetCurrentDirectory(i ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN}, t .r0)"
MessageBox MB_OK "$0"
SectionEnd Christian