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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

NSIS development on Eclipse

For some time I've been developing my NSIS installations for Appian using Notepad++ and the NSIS code completion library for quick dev. It turns out there is a handy NSIS development plugin for eclipse that I should be using...

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/EclipseNSIS_-_NSIS_plugin_for_Eclipse

Complete with a visual tool for InstallOptions custom dialog screens for user interaction with the installer itself.

Overall, I think that NSIS is a very good alternative to the mainstream Installshield and Installaware applications. Hopefully the foreign exe's that NSIS generates don't get targeted as a minority that Vista or further MS OS's target as bad installation implementations. They are pretty "gung-ho" with their windows installation services msi directive...

Setup steps:
http://eclipsensis.sourceforge.net/index.shtml#download
(need to install this plugin on Eclipse 3.3 or later..)

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