NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) - 2.24
NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a small, efficient, capable, professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.
Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.
NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.
Features :
• Generates self-contained executable installers
• Support for ZLib, BZip2 and LZMA data compression (files can be compressed individually or together)
• Uninstall support (installer can generate an uninstaller)
• Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backgrounds, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc.)
• Classic and Modern wizard interface
• Fully multilingual, support for multiple languages (including RTL langauges) in one installer. More than 40 translations are already available, but you can also create your own.
• Page system: You can add standard wizard pages or custom pages
• User selection of installation components, tree for component selection
• Multiple install configurations (usually Minimal, Typical, Full), and custom configuration
• Installer self-verification using a CRC32 checksum
• Small overhead over compressed data size (34 KB with default options)
• Ability to display a license agreement in text or RTF format
• Ability to detect destination directory from the registry
• Easy to use plug-in system (lots of plug-ins for creation of custom dialogs, internet connections, HTTP downloading, file patching, Win32 API calls, etc. are included)
• Installers can be as large as 2GB
• Optional silent mode for automated installations
• A preprocessor with support for defined symbols, macros, conditional compilation, standard predefines
• A lovely coding experience with elements of PHP and assembly (includes user variables, a stack, real flow control, etc.)
• Installers have their own VMs that let you write code that can support:
o File extraction (with configurable overwrite parameters)
o File/directory copying, renaming, deletion, searching
o Plug-in DLL calling
o DLL/ActiveX control registration/unregistration
o Executable execution (shell execute and wait options)
o Shortcut creation
o Registry key reading/setting/enumerating/deleting
o INI file reading/writing
o Generic text file reading/writing
o Powerful string and integer manipulation
o Window finding based on class name or title
o User interface manipulation (font/text setting)
o Window message sending
o User interaction with message boxes or custom pages
o Branching, comparisons, etc.
o Error checking
o Reboot support, including delete or rename on reboot
o Installer behavior commands (such as show/hide/wait/etc.)
o User functions in script
o Callback functions for user actions
Changes in version 2.24:
Notes: This release adds more useful predefines, allows easier usage for non-admins, resolves some longstanding issues and includes the usual collection of new features, bug fixes, improvements and translation updates.
Major Changes
* Library uninstall-reinstall-reboot problems workaround (bug #1097642)
* Minimized number of cases where an error message appears in silent mode
* New compiler predefines for code scope (patch #1644712)
Minor Changes
* Added /P command line option for setting process priority of makensis (patch #1638974)
* Added support for 64-bit PE on POSIX to GetDLLVersionLocal (patch #1643633)
* Append last part of InstallDir only to $INSTDIR on directory pages (bug #1174184)
* Avoid permissions change of output files for LineFind and FileJoin (bug #1631773)
* Fixed erroneous warnings on uninstall sections (bug #1631889)
* Fixed lossy Unicode conversion in resource editor (bug #1083492)
* Ignore invalid preprocessor commands in ignored block or comments
* Made VIAddVersionKey only query language tables instead of creating them and generating warnings (bug #1626504)
* Minor documentation updates and fixes (including bug #1642107, patch #1649187)
* Warn when continuing a comment line using backslash (bug #1554178)
New/Changed Commands
* RegDLL and UnregDLL now use LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH, so there's no need to use SetOutPath to set the working directory (bug #1638191)
Utilities and Plug-ins
* InstallOptions 2.45: Added FOCUS flag (patch #1634704) and fixed paste with ONLY_NUMBERS flag (bug #1652075)
* MakeNSISW: settings in HKCU instead of HKLM (bug #1411970) and MRU menu accelerators
Translations
* Added Galician translation (patch #1631765)
Build System
* Added a workaround for building on x64 POSIX platforms (bug #1646170)
* Added a workaround for strict-aliasing compatibility (bug #1635841)
* Added compression tests
* Added STRIP, APPEND_CCFLAGS and APPEND_LINKFLAGS build options
* Fixed SCons 0.96.94 compatibility
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