nsi script file compiled successfully but no installer package is created

[anilb]

Here is sample code

Section "test (required)"
SectionIn RO
SetOutPath $INSTDIR
File /r "test\*"
;File "test.txt"
SectionEnd

When I try to compile this code it compile successfully, but didn't produce installation package.

Same scipt I have tested with the uncommenting line "File test.txt" and commenting copy test folder line and it produce installer package.

Can someone help what is wrong here. Can I debug/get more detail logs to resolve this issue.

Here is compilation log ----
InstallDir: "$PROGRAMFILES\nullsoft_test1"
Page: directory
Page: instfiles
Section: "test (required)"
SectionIn: [RO]
SetOutPath: "$INSTDIR"
File: Descending to: "test\bin\"
File: "hadoop" [compress] 2307/6549 bytes
File: "hadoop.cmd" [compress] 2732/8514 bytes
File: "hadoop.dll" [compress] 43916/86016 bytes


Processed 1 file, writing output (x86-unicode):
Processing pages... Done!
Removing unused resources... Done!
Generating language tables... Done!

Output: "C:\Users\anil\project\test.exe"
Install: 2 pages (128 bytes), 1 section (2072 bytes), 48 instructions (1344 bytes), 443 strings (2976 bytes), 1 language table (230 bytes).

Using zlib compression.
EXE header size: 37888 / 39424 bytes
Install code: 1626 / 7142 bytes
Install data: 584447 / 2224633 bytes
CRC (0x2B664BA9): 4 / 4 bytes

Total size: 623965 / 2271203 bytes (27.4%)

[Anders]

Output: "C:\Users\anil\project\test.exe"

But you can set it to something else with OutFile.

[anilb]

So my requirement is to copy a directory and its subdirectories. which have many files.
Also the same issue I am facing, when I try to download file from internet. It compiles successfully but no output. I can not understand what is the issue.

Section "test (required)"
SectionIn RO
SetOutPath $INSTDIR
NSISdl::download "https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.2-bin.zip" $0
SectionEnd

[Anders]

1 nsisdl does not support https, use inetc.

2 $0 is the destination are you are not initializing it.

[anilb]

In my case most of the functions (zip, copy folder, download file) compiling successfully but no output. (Means installer package not getting created.). Here are few functions.


INetC::get /SILENT "https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.2-bin.zip"
ZipDLL::extractall "test.zip" "$INSTDIR"
nsisunz::Unzip "$PLUGINSDIR\Document.zip" "$INSTDIR"
File /nonfatal /a /r "test\"

If there is any error, Nsis compiler should return it. Can someone please help here what is going on. Why there is no output file, even after successfully compilation.

[anilb]

I further search about the issue and found it is related to ANSI and Unicode. Most of plugin support ANSI, thats why i am facing the issue. Does anyone know solution for this.

[Anders]

That inetc call is clearly wrong, go read its documentation and look at their examples.

Saying it compiles successfully but has no output does not make sense to me.