idleberg / homebrew-nsisbi

Homebrew tap for NSISBI, a fork of Nullsoft Scriptable Install System with support for big installers

Caution

The versions included in this tap no longer build on Scons 4.2 (or higher). Likewise, newer versions of NSIBI no longer build on macOS at all. The repository is now read-only and preserved for other developers to build upon.

homebrew-nsisbi

Homebrew tap for NSISBI, a fork of Nullsoft Scriptable Install System with support for big installers

Prerequisites

Make sure that Homebrew is installed with brew in your PATH environmental variable

Installation

Tap this repository in order to be able to install its formulae

$ brew tap idleberg/nsisbi

Usage

You can now install any version of nsisbi using the command brew install nsisbi@<version>

# Install latest version
$ brew install nsisbi

# Install specific version
$ brew install [email protected]

To switch between versions (including standard NSIS), use the command brew link nsisbi@<version>

$ brew link [email protected]

Options

--with-advanced-logging

Enable advanced logging of all installer actions

--with-large-strings

Build makensis so installers can handle large strings (>1024 characters)

--with-debug

Build executables with debugging information.

Note: This is not meant for use in production!

License

This work is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License