Simple Addon Installer

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Revision as of 08:06, 11 February 2005 by NowakPL (Talk | contribs)
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I promised a few people this, so here goes.

  • Any place where you see NAME, replace with your add-ons name.
  • Download NSIS and install.
  • Create a directory to work in such as "NAME"
  • Inside this directory create another directory named "Install"
  • Create your .nsi script. Open up notepad (or another favorite text editor) and paste the following:
OutFile "NAME.exe"
InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\NASA\World Wind v1.2"
InstallDirRegKey HKCU "Software\NASA\World Wind v1.2" ""

Section "Main Install"
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR
  File /r "Install\*.*"
SectionEnd

Page directory
Page instfiles

Save as NAME.nsi

  • Inside the "Install" directory is where you put your files. Commonly for WW this would be a "Configuration" directory, subdirectory and files, and also a "Data" directory et all. Do not put the "NASA" Directory or "Worldwind v1.2" directory in there. You want only directories and files inside of those. Hopefully this makes sense.
  • Right click on NAME.nsi and choose "Compile NSIS Script" You may also choose the compresser to use. LZMA is the best but most of the add-ons are small so this is trivial.

You should be done! A few notes:

It is pointless to zip up an exe installer, it doesn't save much room (may actually cost some).

So far the best naming convention I've seen has been.

Worldwind_1.2e_NAME_0.1.exe

It would be nice if Add-on developers stuck to the same convention especially putting in WW's version number in there. Of course adjust accordingly :)

I hope it's helpfull, please feel free to comment. Special thanks for Nowak for designing the original quick and easy nsi script, and showing me how it's done.

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