1 NSISWrapper is a helper program for making Windows installers,
2 particularly when you are cross-compiling from Unix.
4 NSIS (a separate package) is a program for building Windows
5 installers. This wrapper simply makes it easier to generate the
6 installer script that NSIS needs.
8 You can get NSIS itself from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ but
9 generally speaking this wrapper is only useful when cross-compiling
10 (run from a Linux machine) in which case you should use the Fedora or
11 Debian version of NSIS from:
13 Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
14 Debian: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/nsis
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18 NSISWrapper requires a reasonably recent version of Perl. You will
19 also need to install the MinGW cross-compiler binutils
20 (mingw32-binutils package).
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24 For usage instructions, please refer to the manual page nsiswrapper(1).
25 If for some reason the manual page isn't installed then you can do
30 For help with NSIS itself, please refer to the NSIS website.
32 You can also get quick command line help by doing:
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