Builtin NSISdl plug-in

From NSIS Wiki

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Supported 3 Standard usage instructions 4 Header file with various translations

Introduction

This built-in plugin allows you to download files via HTTP.

Supported

To find out whether your NSIS installation supports NSISdl, just compile a script. If NSISdl is listed in the compiler log, it is supported.

 Processing config: 
 Processing plugin dlls: "C:\Program Files\NSIS\Plugins\*.dll"
  - AdvSplash::show
  - Banner::destroy
  - Banner::getWindow
  :
  - NSISdl::download
  - NSISdl::download_quiet
  :

Standard usage instructions

There are two methods. The first downloads the file:

 NSISdl::download http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp291_lite.exe $0

And the second downloads it without warnings:

 NSISdl::download_quiet http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp291_lite.exe $0

where $0 is the name of the local file.

For further usage instructions see Docs\NSISdl\ReadMe.txt.

Header file with various translations

Deguix has made a NSISdl header file which features various translations.

So far it has been translated into eight languages:

• English
• Portuguese
• Lithuanian
• German
• Chinese Traditional
• Simplified Chinese
• Croatian
• French

For further information and current version visit this thread: Forum-Thread