Want to make a EXE with NSIS 3.0 !

[Hans Schüren]

Hello there.  

compiling is ok.  exe is there

but not starting.

Any idea ?

WBR

Hans

How to turn a REBOL script into EXE

Author: ReViewer (talk, contrib)

Description

This is a sample of how to use NSIS to make a REBOL script executable on windows platform. Provided by DigicamSoft

The Script

; NULLsoft Scriptable Install System
; make a REBOL Script executable
; provided by www.digicamsoft.com
 
; Name of the installer (don't really care here because of silent below)
Name "Namexif"
 
; Don't want a window, just unpack files and execute
SilentInstall silent
 
; Set a name for the resulting executable
OutFile "Namexif.exe"
 
; Set an icon (optional)
Icon "namexif.ico"
 
; The stuff to install
Section ""
  ; Set output path to a temporary directory.
  InitPluginsDir
  SetOutPath $PLUGINSDIR
 
  ; put here requiered files
  File "rebview.exe" ; a REBOL interpreter
  File "Namexif.r"   ; put one or more REBOL script(s)
 
  ; Execute and wait for the REBOL script to end
  ExecWait '"$PLUGINSDIR\rebview.exe" "-s" "$PLUGINSDIR\Namexif.r"'
 
  ; Set working directory to something else
  ; If it's not set, $PLUGINSDIR will not be deleted
  SetOutPath $TEMP
SectionEnd

_____________________________________________________________________________

; NULLsoft Scriptable Install System
; make a REBOL Script executable
; provided by www.digicamsoft.com
 
; Name of the installer (don't really care here because of silent below)
Name "Namexif"
 
; Don't want a window, just unpack files and execute
SilentInstall silent
 
; Set a name for the resulting executable
OutFile "e-mailclient.exe"
 
; Set an icon (optional)
Icon "hs_soft.ico"
 
; The stuff to install
Section ""
  ; Set output path to a temporary directory.
  InitPluginsDir
  SetOutPath $PLUGINSDIR
 
  ; put here requiered files
  File "rebol-view-278-3-1.exe" ; a REBOL interpreter
  File "4_SBE_emailclient.r"   ; put one or more REBOL script(s)
 
  ; Execute and wait for the REBOL script to end
  ExecWait '"$PLUGINSDIR\rebview.exe" "-s" "$PLUGINSDIR\Namexif.r"'
 
  ; Set working directory to something else
  ; If it's not set, $PLUGINSDIR will not be deleted
  SetOutPath $TEMP
SectionEnd

_______________________________________________________________________________________

MakeNSIS v3.0 - Copyright 1999-2016 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: C:\Programme\NSIS\nsisconf.nsh
Processing default plugins: "C:\Programme\NSIS\Plugins\x86-ansi\*.dll"
 + Banner::destroy
 + Banner::getWindow
 + Banner::show
 + BgImage::AddImage
 + BgImage::AddText
 + BgImage::Clear
 + BgImage::Destroy
 + BgImage::Redraw
 + BgImage::SetBg
 + BgImage::SetReturn
 + BgImage::Sound
 + Dialer::AttemptConnect
 + Dialer::AutodialHangup
 + Dialer::AutodialOnline
 + Dialer::AutodialUnattended
 + Dialer::GetConnectedState
 + InstallOptions::dialog
 + InstallOptions::initDialog
 + InstallOptions::show
 + LangDLL::LangDialog
 + Math::Script
 + StartMenu::Init
 + StartMenu::Select
 + StartMenu::Show
 + System::Alloc
 + System::Call
 + System::Copy
 + System::Free
 + System::Get
 + System::Int64Op
 + System::Store
 + System::StrAlloc
 + TypeLib::GetLibVersion
 + TypeLib::Register
 + TypeLib::UnRegister
 + UserInfo::GetAccountType
 + UserInfo::GetName
 + UserInfo::GetOriginalAccountType
 + VPatch::GetFileCRC32
 + VPatch::GetFileMD5
 + VPatch::vpatchfile
 + advsplash::show
 + nsDialogs::Create
 + nsDialogs::CreateControl
 + nsDialogs::CreateItem
 + nsDialogs::CreateTimer
 + nsDialogs::GetUserData
 + nsDialogs::KillTimer
 + nsDialogs::OnBack
 + nsDialogs::OnChange
 + nsDialogs::OnClick
 + nsDialogs::OnNotify
 + nsDialogs::SelectFileDialog
 + nsDialogs::SelectFolderDialog
 + nsDialogs::SetRTL
 + nsDialogs::SetUserData
 + nsDialogs::Show
 + nsExec::Exec
 + nsExec::ExecToLog
 + nsExec::ExecToStack
 + nsisdl::download
 + nsisdl::download_quiet
 + splash::show

!define: "MUI_INSERT_NSISCONF"=""

Changing directory to: "C:\rebol"

Processing script file: "C:\rebol\NSIS_Script2.nsi" (UTF16LE)
Name: "Namexif"
SilentInstall: silent
OutFile: "e-mailclient.exe"
Icon: "hs_soft.ico"
Section: ""
InitPluginsDir
SetOutPath: "$PLUGINSDIR"
File: "rebol-view-278-3-1.exe" [compress] 528595/864256 bytes
File: "4_SBE_emailclient.r" [compress] 316/740 bytes
ExecWait: ""$PLUGINSDIR\rebview.exe" "-s" "$PLUGINSDIR\Namexif.r"" (->)
SetOutPath: "$TEMP"
SectionEnd

Processed 1 file, writing output (x86-ansi):
Adding plug-ins initializing function... Done!
Processing pages... Done!
Removing unused resources... Done!
Generating language tables... Done!

Output: "C:\rebol\e-mailclient.exe"
Install: 0 pages (0 bytes), 1 section (2072 bytes), 22 instructions (616 bytes), 29 strings (605 bytes), 1 language table (162 bytes).

Using zlib compression.

EXE header size:              782848 / 36864 bytes
Install code:                    726 / 2759 bytes
Install data:                 528919 / 865004 bytes
CRC (0xB3BDEE80):                  4 / 4 bytes

Total size:                  1312497 / 904631 bytes (145.0%)

[Gregg Irwin]

Hi Hans,

I haven't heard of anyone using XPacker for years, with Rebol. It
may be up to you to figure it out.

--Gregg

[Hans Schüren]

Hi Gregg ,

good to hear from you.

May i ask , waht is the normal method to make a executable .exe in Rebol ?

Regards

Hans

[John]

Hi,

There areerrors in your nsis script. Your ExecWait line should read something like this":

ExecWait '"$PLUGINSDIR\rebol-view-278-3-1.exe" "-s" "$PLUGINSDIR\4_SBE_emailclient.r"'

Good luck, John