makensis
makensis
TLDR
Compile a NSIS script
Compile a NSIS script in strict mode (treat warnings as errors)
Display help for a specific command
SYNOPSIS
makensis [script.nsi] [-CMDHELP item] [-HDRINFO] [-LICENSE] [-VERSION] [-Vx] [-WX] [-Ofile] [-PAUSE] [-NOCONFIG] [-NOCD] [-INPUTCHARSET charset] [-PPO] [-SAFEPPO] [-Ddefine=value] [-Xscriptcmd]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the makensis command.
This manual page was written for the Debian (TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the HTML format; see below.
makensis is a program that creates installer programs for Windows.
OPTIONS
Parameters are processed by order (-Ddef ins.nsi != ins.nsi -Ddef) for script file name, you can use - to read from the standard input. For a complete description, see the HTML files.
-Vx
Verbosity where x is 4=all, 3=no script, 2=no info, 1=no warnings, 0=none.
-WX
Treat warnings as errors
-Ofile
Specifies a text file to log compiler output (default is stdout).
-PAUSE
Pauses after execution.
-NOCONFIG
Disables inclusion of /etc/nsisconf.nsh.
-NOCD
Disable changing the current directory to that of the .nsi file.
-INPUTCHARSET charset
Specifies a specific codepage for files without a BOM. The following choice of charsets is supported: <ACP|OEM|CP#|UTF8|UTF16<LE|BE>>
-PPO
Run only the preprocessor and print the result to stdout.
-SAFEPPO
Same as -PPO but instructions like !appendfile or !system are not executed.
-Ddefine=value
Defines the symbol "define" for the script to [value].
-Xscriptcmd
Executes scriptcmd in the script (i.e. "-XOutFile poop.exe")
-CMDHELP item
Prints out help for item, or lists all commands.
-HDRINFO
Prints information about what options makensis was compiled with.
-LICENSE
Prints the makensis software license.
-VERSION
Prints the makensis version and exits.
FILES
/etc/nsisconf.nsh
System wide configuration file.
~/.nsisconf.nsh
Per-user configuration file.
AUTHORS
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
This manual page was written initially by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> for the Debian (TM) system.
Thomas Gaugler
updated the man page to reflect changes introduced with version 3.0.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2005-2016 Paul Wise, Thomas Gaugler
SEE ALSO
NSIS is documented more fully in the HTML files in /usr/share/doc/nsis/Docs.