Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.22 review

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System in short NSIS is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: NSIS Team

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Nullsoft Scriptable Install System in short NSIS is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

An installer is not only the first experience of a user with your product, many software problems can also be solved by providing reliable installation tools. NSIS allows you to create stable, quick and user friendly installers that are capable of installing, uninstalling, setting system settings, extracting files and more. With the NSIS scripting language you can implement any custom logic you want.

The large collection of plug-ins, scripts and software in the Developer Center helps you to build full featured installers and provides a solution for almost every scenario.

Here are some key features of "Nullsoft Scriptable Install System":
Generates self-contained executable installers
Support for ZLib, BZip2 and LZMA data compression (files can be compressed individually or together)
Uninstall support (installer can generate an uninstaller)
Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backgrounds, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc.)
Classic and Modern wizard interface
Fully multilingual, support for multiple languages (including RTL langauges) in one installer. More than 40 translations are already available, but you can also create your own.
Page system: You can add standard wizard pages or custom pages
User selection of installation components, tree for component selection
Multiple install configurations (usually Minimal, Typical, Full), and custom configuration
Installer self-verification using a CRC32 checksum
Small overhead over compressed data size (34 KB with default options)
Ability to display a license agreement in text or RTF format
Ability to detect destination directory from the registry
Easy to use plug-in system (lots of plug-ins for creation of custom dialogs, internet connections, HTTP downloading, file patching, Win32 API calls, etc. are included)
Installers can be as large as 2GB
Optional silent mode for automated installations
A preprocessor with support for defined symbols, macros, conditional compilation, standard predefines
A lovely coding experience with elements of PHP and assembly (includes user variables, a stack, real flow control, etc.)
Installers have their own VMs that let you write code that can support:
File extraction (with configurable overwrite parameters)
File/directory copying, renaming, deletion, searching
Plug-in DLL calling
DLL/ActiveX control registration/unregistration
Executable execution (shell execute and wait options)
Shortcut creation
Registry key reading/setting/enumerating/deleting
INI file reading/writing
Generic text file reading/writing
Powerful string and integer manipulation
Window finding based on class name or title
User interface manipulation (font/text setting)
Window message sending
User interaction with message boxes or custom pages
Branching, comparisons, etc.
Error checking
Reboot support, including delete or rename on reboot
Installer behaviour commands (such as show/hide/wait/etc.)
User functions in script
Callback functions for user actions
Completely free for any use. See License.
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