NSIS for Visual Studio Code

Language syntax, IntelliSense and build system for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS).

Screenshot of NSIS in Visual Studio Code with Hopscotch theme

Features

• Language syntax for NSIS, NSIS Language Files, and nsL Assembler
• IntelliSense for core NSIS commands, variables and predefines
• IntelliSense for core plug-ins:
  • AdvSplash
  • Banner
  • BgImage
  • Dialer
  • InstallOptions
  • LangDLL
  • Math
  • nsDialogs
  • nsExec
  • NSISdl
  • Splash
  • StartMenu
  • System
  • UserInfo
  • VPatch
• IntelliSense for core libraries (“Useful Headers”):
  • FileFunc
  • LogicLib
  • Memento
  • Modern UI
  • MultiUser
  • Sections
  • StrFunc
  • WinMessages
  • WinVer
  • WordFunc
  • x64
• NSIS Diagnostics
• IntelliSense for nsL Assembler
• IntelliSense for Haskell NSIS
• Drunken NSIS
• Build Tools

You can further extend NSIS support with IntelliSense for third-party plug-ins.

Installation

Extension Marketplace

Launch Quick Open, paste the following command, and press Enter

ext install idleberg.nsis

CLI

With shell commands installed, you can use the following command to install the extension:

$ code --install-extension idleberg.nsis

Packaged Extension

Download the packaged extension from the the release page and install it from the command-line:

$ code --install-extension path/to/nsis-*.vsix

Alternatively, you can download the packaged extension from the Open VSX Registry or using the ovsx command-line tool:

$ ovsx get idleberg.nsis

Clone Repository

Change to your Visual Studio Code extensions directory:

# Windows
$ cd %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions

# Linux & macOS
$ cd ~/.vscode/extensions/

Clone repository as nsis:

$ git clone https://github.com/idleberg/vscode-nsis nsis

Install dependencies:

cd nsis && npm install

Usage

IntelliSense

With most commands, you can specify available options before completion. For instance, rather than completing RequestExecutionLevel and then specifying an option, you can directly choose RequestExecutionLevel user from the completion menu.

To complete compile time commands, variables or predefines, make sure to omit special characters like !, $ and brackets:

• include completes to !include
• INSTDIR completes to $INSTDIR
• NSIS_VERSION completes to ${NSIS_VERSION}

However, you have to type __LINE__ to complete to ${__LINE__}.

There are several special cases for your convenience:

• MB_OK completes to MessageBox MB_OK "messagebox_text"
• onInit completes to a Function .onInit block
• LogicLib completes to !include "LogicLib.nsh"

Drunken NSIS

Fuzzy syntax completions are available through “Drunken NSIS”, which tries to iron out some of the inconsistencies of the NSIS language, for instance word order.

Example:

Interchangable word order of NSIS language and library functions

• ReadFile completes to FileRead
• INIStrRead completes to ReadINIStr
• SetSectionText completes to SectionSetText
• SetLog completes to LogSet
• FirstFind completes to FindFirst
• ${LineFind} completes to ${FindLine}

Building

Before you can build, make sure makensis is in your PATH environment variable. Alternatively, you can specify the path to makensis in your user settings.

makensis

Example:

{
  "nsis.compilerArguments": ["/WX", "/V3"],
  "nsis.pathToMakensis": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\NSIS\\makensis.exe"
}

To trigger a build, select NSIS: Save & Compile” from the command-palette or use the default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B. The strict option treats warnings as errors and can be triggered using Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B.

nsL Transpiler

As of version 2.0 of this package, you can transpile nsL Assembler using the NSIS: Transpile nsL code command from the command-palette. The path to nsL.jar is specified in your user settings.

Example:

{
  "nsis.nsl.pathToJar": "path\\to\\nsL.jar",
  "nsis.nsl.customArguments": ["/nomake", "/nopause"]
}

Options

You can tweak your default settings by editing your user settings.

Commands

Task Runner

If you prefer Visual Studio Code's built-in Task Runner to build scripts, you can create tasks.json in the project root using the NSIS: Create Build Task command from the command-palette.

Note: The created Task Runner will adapt to the user settings specified in settings.json.

Related

• atom-language-nsis - NSIS package for Atom
• node-makensis - Node wrapper for makensis

License

If not otherwise specified (see below), files in this repository fall under The MIT License and the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.

An exception is made for files in readable text which contain their own license information, or files where an accompanying file exists (in the same directory) with a “-license” suffix added to the base-name name of the original file, and an extension of txt, html, or similar. For example “tidy” is accompanied by “tidy-license.txt”.

Donate

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