Conditional copying and section size

Hello,

I have something like that:

Section "$(STRING_SECTION_MAIN)" SecMain

  

  SectionIn 1 RO

  

  ; Set output path to the installation directory.

  SetOutPath $INSTDIR

  

  ${If} $Portable == 0

    File "/oname=1.exe" "${EXE}"

    

    ; Write the installation path into the registry

    WriteRegStr HKCU "Software\test" "install_dir" "$INSTDIR"

  ${Else}

    File "/oname=bin\1.exe" "${EXE}"

    File "/oname=launcher.exe" "${LAUNCHER}"

  ${EndIf}

  

SectionEnd

It works fine, except that the main file, "${EXE}", is calculated twice in the file size of the section. I thought there's maybe a flag for "File" to exclude it from size calculation, but I didn't find any.

Thanks.

Use this workaround:

Section
var /GLOBAL Portable
StrCpy $Portable 1
!define EXE "${__FILE__}"

StrCpy $0 $outdir\1.exe
${If} $Portable <> 0
CreateDirectory $outdir\bin
StrCpy $0 $outdir\bin\1.exe
${EndIf}
File "/oname=$0" "${EXE}"
SectionEnd

or adjust size with SectionSetSize in .onInit

> or adjust size with SectionSetSize in .onInit
How do I do that?
Is there a function to calculate a file size at compile time?

Originally Posted by stopasking View Post

> or adjust size with SectionSetSize in .onInit
How do I do that?
Is there a function to calculate a file size at compile time?

Yes and no, there is no real compile time function to get the size of a file but you can call !system and put the size as a define in a .nsh that you include...

Can you please provide more details? An example maybe?
I found no info about using !system for getting a size of a file...

You can use !system to execute a vbs script, bat, exe, whatever. You'll need to build that script/exe to create an .nsh file with the size-specific code you need.