NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator

Author: Red Wine (talk, contrib)

Links

Download

• NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator Nsisqssg.zip (74 KB) the current release.
• Help in html format Nqssghlp.zip (85 KB)

Discussion

• Winamp Forums thread. Also bugs reporting goes here.

Introduction

NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator is a wizard interface windows application aiming at guide NSIS installations developers through the preparation and creation of their software installation.

The preparation of the script is fully customisable, allowing developers to set up and modify the desired preferences. It takes just three plain steps to prepare and create a full working and ready for distribution installation.

Moreover, developers have the ability to save the generated script on their local system, keep it either for reference, or for further elaboration with their preferred editor.

NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator is a win 32 application, edited completely using the power of Nullsoft Scriptable Install System.

Requirements

NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator is fully tested on MS Windows XP pro sp2, and MS Windows 98 SE, though, it must be compatible with all windows versions supported by NSIS.

This application is indented to creating and compiling NSIS scripts so the obvious requirement is a current and active NSIS installation on the system where it's going to be used.

Furthermore there is not any special requirement nor complicated rules of usage.

Features

NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator does not require from the user to write even a single line of code, though, allows experienced developers to edit the generated script by the way they like, and recompile it adding personalised code and new features.

Even if you have not any knowledge on NSIS scripting lang, or you are a developer who is getting bothered to write all the needed code and you just want to make the final customisations and improvements, you can get started with NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator and get your distribution ready in a snap.

All you have to do before you proceed, is to have all your software related files in tact, stored in a separate folder on your local system.
Additional files that must be installed in special folders e.g. Application Data directory, should reside in their respectively separate folders as well.

Then just follow the three simple, straight forward plain steps, and you are done.

ScreenShots

Step one: Specify application info and installation's general preferences

Step two: Specify the output directory and application's files

Step three: Specify the Start Menu folder and compiler preferences

Versions History

Currently version 1 beta 7

Credits

• A big thanks goes to Instructor for his precious bunch of macros & functions.
  
• Also to Iceman_K author of EclipseNSIS, for his help on testing and reporting bugs and improvements as well.
  

License

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

• The origin of this software must not be misrepresented;
  you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
  If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment
  in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
• Altered versions must be plainly marked as such,
  and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
• This notice may not be removed or altered from any distribution.