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Details

Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more

Getting Started

• NSIS Website
• Screenshots
• Features
• Documentation
• Official Forum
• Examples
• Tutorials
• Download

IDE

• NSIS has an eclipse plugin
• Another open source editor.HM NIS EDIT. : Even has a small wizard allowing quick setup template.

Plugins

NSIS comes with a variety of plugins

Plugins are usually one .dll file and an .nsh file. To Install Plugins you need to copy the dll to C:\Program Files\NSIS\Plugins and the nsh file to C:\Program Files\NSIS\Include
See : How do I install a Plugin

Useful Plugins

• Dotnet Plugin
• Get Windows Version (this one is much more verbose and gets Service Pack Details)
• UAC Plugin
• DumpLog (Creates a log file out of the details printed)

Tips

1. You can use the the LogicLib which comes as part of the installation to use if conditions in your script (this is not directly available). All you need to do is:

   !include 'LogicLib.nsh'
   

   And then:

   # ...
   ${If} $0 == "hello"
       DetailPrint "world"
   ${Endif}
   

   See this for details.