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] [-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.
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