recompiling NSIS only because of install logging instructions

[szucs]

Hello NSIS users,

I read the NSIS documentation which says NSIS must be rebuilt to use the install logging instructions.

So I started to do that.
But I realized I have to install Python, SConst, Visual C++ toolkit and finally the Platform SDK which is 1GB!

Cannot I avoid all this process? It is a little bit ridiculous.

All I want to do is to log some install operations into the $INSTDIR\install.log file, but it seems I cannot do that with the default NSIS build.

Thanks!

[kichik]

Yes, you can avoid it. Each version comes out with special builds for logging and long strings so you can avoid rebuilding NSIS.

BTW, the complete Platform SDK is really big, but you only need the core SDK which isn't that big.

[szucs]

Hello Kichik,

many thanks to You for the info that I appreciate!