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NSIS Special Builds set NSIS_MAX_STRLEN flag

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Version: 13.6.0

Target: Windows

I’m reading over how to properly update PATH with the NSIS installer. On the very beginning of the wiki page, it says

WARNING: Strings longer than ${NSIS_MAX_STRLEN} will get truncated/corrupted. Do NOT use this function to update %PATH%. (See below for a link to an alternative implementation.)

The default NSIS_MAX_STRLEN size are 1024 byte?

I know electron-builder are using NSIS 3.0.1 but how would I tell if we are running the Speical Build? and how can we update the NSIS variable NSIS_MAX_STRLEN=8192 from custom nsh scripts?

Thank you!

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FromStoneagecommented, Feb 20, 2017

Thank You @develar again !! Much much appreciated!

I’ve just tested and confirmed that with 13.11.1, nsis special build is able to append variable to PATH without running into NSIS_MAX_STRLEN math length at 1024 issue.

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develarcommented, Feb 18, 2017

Fixed in 13.10.1.

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