Headers for compiling NSIS

Hello,
I am trying to compile NSIS but I'm having problems locating the correct header files, as they are not included in the source I downloaded and I can't find them on the net.

Cannot open include file: 'nsis-version.h': No such file or directory
Cannot open include file: 'nsis-sconf.h': No such file or directory

those are the two I know are missing thus far. did I miss a step in downloading the NSIS SDK? And if so, where can I go to get it?

Thanks!

I also downloaded the svn, and looked in most all versions of it and still can't find the header files...

anyone?

You need a somewhat recent Microsoft Platform/Windows SDK (2003 or newer probably), the zlib header files, scons (+python) and the nsis source, then run scons to compile. Those header files are probably generated on the fly by scons during the build...

Ah, I see. Thank you.

How do I open a SCons script? it's a FILE type, and it's not clear how to actually get SCons to execute it

SCons is a batch file in your Python Scripts folder. You run that with the NSIS folder path as an argument.

Stu

Ah okay. I figured out some. I'm having problems specifying the zlib directory. I downloaded zlib from http://people.apache.org/~wrowe/zlib...-win32-x86.zip

I put it into folder c:\zlib

I ran scons the following way:

c:\Python25\Scripts>scons --directory "C:\Users\Steven\Documents\NSIS" ZLIB_W32=

C:\zlib

and still it returns:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Mkdir("build\release\config")
Delete("nsis-14-Feb-2011.cvs")
Delete(".instdist")
Delete(".test")
Using Microsoft tools configuration
Checking for memset requirement... yes
Checking for C library gdi32... yes
Checking for C library user32... yes
Checking for C library pthread... no
Checking for C library iconv... no
Checking for C library version... yes
Checking for C library zdll... no
Checking for C library z... no
zlib (win32) is missing!

nevermind, I set it as an enviornmental variable and it worked that way. lets see if it will compile now.

despite my following the instructions for allowing the nsis menu to build (installing wxwidgets & setting env variable & running wx.bat), scons is still returning:

err(["build\release\NSIS Menu\NSIS"], ["Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nsismenu.cpp"
, "Contrib\NSIS Menu\nsismenu\nslinks.cpp"])
*** error: WXWIN must be set to build NSIS Menu!
scons: *** [build\release\NSIS Menu\NSIS] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

is there a build that excludes the menu? or is there a way to skip the processing of the menu?

ThankS!

You can use scons -h (or -H) to get a list of settings

I use something like: scons SKIPUTILS="NSIS Menu" PREFIX=c:\newnsis install

hehe I took a less technical approach by deleting the SConscript file in \NSIS Menu\

all is well now. thanks for all the help ^.^