You can use the script hereunder (save it as nsis-install.sh, then make it executable “chmod a+x nsis-install.sh”, then just launch it ./nsis-install.sh). You may get prompted to remove a directory if it already exists (make sure that it is not a problem to remove it or adapt the script to use another location)

#!/bin/bash
#
# Author: Guillaume Polet
#
# Copyright: Public domain. You may copy, redistribute, modify this file
# without any further obligation.
# This files comes with absolutely no WARRANTY of ANY kind! The author shall
# not be responsible for ANY DAMAGE or PROBLEM of ANY kind that could have
# been caused by this file. Use this file at your OWN risk!
#
# Ok this script may suck but it works! Feel free to optimize it, and if you are a cool dude, put it back online.

# A few vars to adapt if you want
ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/share
NSIS_DIR=nsis
NSIS_ABS_DIR=$ROOT_DIR/$NSIS_DIR
NSIS_VER=2.46
NSIS_SRC_FILE=nsis-$NSIS_VER-src.tar.bz2
NSIS_BIN_FILE=nsis-$NSIS_VER.zip

# First go to where we will unzip the sources
TMP=$(mktemp -d /tmp/nsis.XXXXXXXXXX) || { echo “Failed to create temp dir”; exit 1; }
cd $TMP
wget http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nsis/NSIS%202/$NSIS_VER/$NSIS_SRC_FILE
tar xvjf $NSIS_SRC_FILE

# Then we grab the binaries and install it
mkdir -p $ROOT_DIR
cd $ROOT_DIR
if [ -d "$NSIS_ABS_DIR" ]; then
echo “$NSIS_ABS_DIR already exists, would you like to remove all of its content? (No undo possible!!!) (Y/N)”
read empty_dir
if [[ $empty_dir == "Y" || $empty_dir == "Yes" ]]; then
rm -Rf $NSIS_ABS_DIR
else
echo “directory not empty, cannot proceed.”
exit 1
fi
fi

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/nsis/NSIS%202/$NSIS_VER/$NSIS_BIN_FILE
unzip $NSIS_BIN_FILE

# Rename the binary folder
mv nsis-$NSIS_VER $NSIS_DIR

cd $TMP/nsis-$NSIS_VER-src
# We compile the program.
# The PREFIX argument provides an absolute path against which a bunch of
# relative path will be concatenated during build to install a bunch of stuff
#
# The PREFIX_BIN indicates where the built binary will be copied
#
# The PREFIX_DATA argument is very important as it gives an absolute path
# against which relative path for plugins, includes, stubs, contrib,
# win32 binaries–>this path will be coded in the built binary
#
# The VERSION argument is just for output of the makensis command when running
# it without arguments
#
# Use scons -h to see all arguments possible (there are tons of them)
scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all PREFIX=$NSIS_ABS_DIR PREFIX_BIN=$NSIS_ABS_DIR PREFIX_DATA=$NSIS_ABS_DIR VERSION=$NSIS_VER install-compiler

# Finally, we install the built file in /usr/bin to make it available from the command line
echo “Installing $NSIS_ABS_DIR/makensis into /usr/bin/makensis”
ln -sf $NSIS_ABS_DIR/makensis /usr/bin/makensis

# Let’s clean-up a bit
cd $ROOT_DIR/
rm $NSIS_BIN_FILE
rm -Rf $TMP

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.

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

May i know the reason for this exception

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.

While running the below command im getting some exception.

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

At best you are confused.

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

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

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…