Linux cli command makensis

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NAME 🖥️ makensis 🖥️

A program to create Windows installers.

SYNOPSIS

makensis [script.nsi] [-CMDHELP item] [-HDRINFO] [-LICENSE] [-VERSION] [-Vx] [-WX] [-Ofile] [-PAUSE] [-NOCONFIG] [-NOCD] [-INPUTCHARSET charset] [-PPO] [-SAFEPPO] [-Ddefine**=value] [-X**scriptcmd]

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.

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHORS

Paul Wise <[email protected]>

This manual page was written initially by Paul Wise <[email protected]> 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

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