Comments on: MakeNSIS on Linux

By: Sushma

Sushma — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:56:47 +0000

Hi Mohanjith,

Even I am also getting the same error as Umesh. I tried with above options but it didn’t work.
Please can you suggest any other solution.

By: S H Mohanjith

S H Mohanjith — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:39:13 +0000

I don’t have access to a 32 bit installation right now, can you try with the following from the nsis source directory.

scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA_PATH=no PREFIX=/path/to/extracted/zip install-compiler

scons NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA_PATH=no PREFIX=/path/to/extracted/zip /path/to/extracted/zip/LibraryLocal

By: Umesh

Umesh — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:42:44 +0000

Hi,

May i know the reason for this exception

By: Umesh

Umesh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:31:04 +0000

Hi,

Please find the error

scons: Reading SConscript files …
Mkdir(“build/release/config”)
scons: *** build/release/config: File exists
Delete(“nsis-28-Oct-2009.cvs”)
Delete(“.instdist”)
Delete(“.test”)
Using GNU tools configuration
Checking for compiler flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -s… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG… (cached) yes
Checking for compiler flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -s… (cached) yes
Checking for compiler flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -m32… (cached) yes
Checking for memcpy requirement… (cached) yes
Checking for memset requirement… (cached) yes
Checking for linker flag -pthread… (cached) yes
Checking for __BIG_ENDIAN__… (cached) no
Checking for C library gdi32… (cached) no
Checking for C library user32… (cached) no
Checking for C library pthread… (cached) yes
Checking for C library iconv… (cached) no
Checking for C library dl… (cached) yes
Checking for C library gdi32… (cached) no
Checking for C library iconv… (cached) no
Checking for C library pthread… (cached) yes
Checking for C library user32… (cached) no
Checking for C++ library cppunit… (cached) no
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets …
gcc -o build/release/ExDLL/pluginapi.o -c -Os -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing “-DNSISCALL= __attribute__((__stdcall__))” -ISource/exehead Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:1:21: error: windows.h: No such file or directory
In file included from Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.h:8,
from Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:3:
Source/exehead/api.h:37: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘*’ token
Source/exehead/api.h:37: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘UINT_PTR’
Source/exehead/api.h:37: error: ‘UINT_PTR’ declared as function returning a function
Source/exehead/api.h:66: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘HWND’
Source/exehead/api.h:68: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ‘popstring’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:16: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘lstrcpyA’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:18: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘GlobalFree’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:18: error: ‘HGLOBAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:18: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:18: error: for each function it appears in.)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:18: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘th’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ‘popstringn’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘lstrcpynA’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:29: error: ‘HGLOBAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:29: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘th’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ‘pushstring’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:37: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘GlobalAlloc’
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:37: error: ‘GPTR’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ‘getuservariable’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:45: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ’setuservariable’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:51: error: ‘NULL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c: In function ‘pushint’:
Contrib/ExDLL/pluginapi.c:189: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘wsprintf’
scons: *** [build/release/ExDLL/pluginapi.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

By: S H Mohanjith

S H Mohanjith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:24:21 +0000

Can you please post the exception?

By: Umesh

Umesh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:22:05 +0000

Hi,

While running the below command im getting some exception.

scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all

By: S H Mohanjith

S H Mohanjith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:20:34 +0000

You can make the installed on Linux but you can’t use it on Linux (without Wine or similar). Using NSIS compiler (makensis) on Linux is what this blog post is about.

At best you are confused.

By: Umesh

Umesh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:02:28 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the above reply.But in some sites they have told that we can have a makensis compiler for Linux with the help of windows source. I tried i got a compiler for Linux. With the help of that is it possible to create installer package for linux

By: S H Mohanjith

S H Mohanjith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:39:17 +0000

See http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page, NSIS for making Windows Installers

By: Umesh

Umesh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:12:13 +0000

Hi,

I Just want to know whether can we create a installer package for linux using NSIS.

By: jcomeau_ictx

jcomeau_ictx — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:04:00 +0000

Thanks, that works as far as it goes... but I'm getting this:

2 warnings:
File /a is disabled for non Win32 platforms. (pcdinst.nsi:81)
File /a is disabled for non Win32 platforms. (pcdinst.nsi:82)

It works anyway! Just letting everybody know to watch out for this...