NSIS

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is an open source installer production program for Windows systems. NSIS provides functions such as installation, uninstallation, system settings, and file decompression. NSIS uses its scripting language to describe the behavior and logic of the installation program. The NSIS scripting language has a similar structure and syntax to common programming languages, but it is designed for applications such as installers.

NSIS software features

​ ​ 1. The overhead is small, a complete functional installation program only requires 34k additional overhead.

​​ 2. Supports most Windows platforms.

​​ 3. Supports three major compression algorithms: Zlig, BZips, and LZMA.

4. NSIS supports scripts.

5. NSIS supports multiple languages.

​ 6. NSIS supports installation interface customization.

NSIS installation method

​ ​ 1. After downloading NSIS from this site, get a compression file locally on your computer and use 360 compression software to decompress it.

​​ 2. After decompression is completed, double-click NSIS.exe to open the software.

How to use NSIS

Using NSIS packaging software

Method one:

​​ 1. Open the NSIS installation directory and double-click to open the Examples folder. You can see many example scripts.

​ ​ 2. Depending on the desired effect, you can edit different scripts and save them as nsi files.

​​ 3. Open MakeNSISW, which is the script compiler, load the script, and generate the packaging program. Output displays the directory where the installation package is generated.

Method two:

​ ​ 1. This packaging method is diverse, but not very convenient. We can generate scripts through the interface by installing nisedit.

​ ​ 2. Click the file in the NSIS menu bar, click New Script Guide in the pop-up options, and follow the prompts to generate the script.

3. Save the generated script, and then follow method 1 to use NSIS to generate the packaged file. In this way, the program you wrote can be better disseminated.

NSIS update log

​ 1. NSIS integrates all plug-ins and application examples that can be collected on the Internet;

​ ​ 2. Integrated two script editors, vnisedit v2.03 Simplified Chinese version and notepad2 v3.1 Simplified Chinese version, and can be easily switched;

3. Integrated four practical tools including nsis folder compressor and vpatch patch tool;

​​ 4. Comes with nsis user manual and nsis graphic tutorial collection.