NSIS(1)

NAME

makensis - A program to create Windows installers.

SYNOPSIS

makensis [script.nsi] [-CMDHELP item] [-HDRINFO] [-LICENSE] [-VERSION]
         [-Vx] [-Ofile] [-PAUSE] [-NOCONFIG] [-NOCD] [-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.

-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.

-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.

SEE ALSO

NSIS is documented more fully in the HTML files in
/usr/share/doc/nsis/Docs.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Paul Wise pabs@debian.org for the
Debian (TM) system.

AUTHOR

Paul Wise

Author.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2005 Paul Wise

[FIXME: source] October 5, 2005 NSIS(1)