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fatihk
fatihk

Reputation: 7919

Does NSIS support external files?

I basicaly want to have an external very large (bigger than 2gb) file next to my setup executable. To realize this, in the script I have tried the following:

File "$EXEDIR/verybigfile"

However, I got the following error:

File: "$EXEDIR/verybigfile" -> no files found.

Is it possible to do this in NSIS or do I require a plugin to realize this? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 417

Answers (1)

Anders
Anders

Reputation: 101736

The File instruction cannot use variables like $EXEDIR, it needs the local path on your machine but you will hit the 2 GiB limit because these files are stored inside the installer.

If you are shipping a DVD or something like that you can use CopyFiles /SILENT "$EXEDIR\files\*.*" "$InstDir" to copy files from a DVD to the users system. This instruction does not support any kind of decompression, it is just a plain copy operation.

You need to use a plug-in to extract from .ZIP/.7z files.

Upvotes: 1

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