1.1 About NSIS 1.1 About NSIS The installer is your application's first impression. Slow or unsuccessful software installations is one of the most irritating computer problems....

Chapter 1: Introduction to NSIS Chapter 1: Introduction to NSIS 1.1 About NSIS 1.2 Main Features 1.3 Feature List 1.4 Unicode installers

Appendix G: Building NSIS G.1 Building in General G.2 Building on Windows G.3 Building on POSIX G.4 Nightly Builds Appendix G: Building NSIS NSIS version 2.07 introduced a ...

Appendix H: Credits H.1 Programmers H.2 Testers H.3 Designers H.4 Translators H.5 Writers Appendix H: Credits H.1 Programmers Justin Frankel aka 0xDEADBEEF Creating...

2.4 Compiler 2.4 Compiler The second thing you need to do in order to create your installer after you have created your script is to compile your script. MakeNSIS.exe is the NS...

2.1 Introduction 2.1 Introduction Most software packages you download or buy come with an installer. The installer copies and/or updates files, writes registry keys, writes con...

2.6 Plug-ins 2.6 Plug-ins NSIS support plug-ins that can be called from the script. Plug-ins are DLL files written in C, C++, Delphi or another programming language and therefo...

2.7 More 2.7 More This tutorial has described the basic NSIS features, to learn more about everything NSIS can do, take some time to read the rest of this manual.

2.2 Script Files 2.2 Script Files To create a NSIS installer you first have to write a NSIS script. A NSIS script is just a regular text file with a special syntax. You can edi...

4.11 Plug-in DLLs 4.11.1 Using Plug-in Commands 4.11.2 Calling plug-ins manually 4.11 Plug-in DLLs The abilities of the NSIS scripting language can be extended by utilising f...