Ken Takata wrote:
> 2018/12/22 Sat 1:54:59 UTC+9 Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >
> > > > Patch 8.1.0616
> > > > Problem: NSIS installer is outdated.
> > > > Solution: Use modern syntax, MUI2 and make it work better. Add
> > > > translations.
> > > > (Ken Takata, closes #3501)
> > > > Files: Filelist, nsis/gvim.nsi, nsis/icons/header.svg,
> > > > nsis/icons/welcome.svg, nsis/icons/header.bmp,
> > > > nsis/icons/un_header.bmp, nsis/icons/uninstall.bmp,
> > > > nsis/icons/welcome.bmp, nsis/lang/danish.nsi,
> > > > nsis/lang/dutch.nsi,
> > > > nsis/lang/english.nsi, nsis/lang/german.nsi,
> > > > nsis/lang/italian.nsi, nsis/lang/japanese.nsi,
> > > > nsis/lang/simpchinese.nsi, nsis/lang/tradchinese.nsi,
> > > > src/dosinst.c
> > >
> > > I now notice that these .bmp files are very big, 600 Kbyte.
> > > Is there a way we can avoid that?
> > > Since .bmp files are not compressed, making them smaller would help.
> > > But a different format, such as .png, would help much more.
> > > Can't we just use the .svg files?
> >
> > Now that I try it out, building the installer and running it, I find two
> > files that are obtained from the wrong directory:
> >
> > File ..\vimtutor.bat
> > File ..\README.txt
> >
> > These should use "..\" instead of ${VIMRT}. I'll make a patch for that.
> >
> > When running the gvim that was just installed, I get this error:
> >
> > libgcc_s.sjli-1.dll is missing
> >
> > But after clicking OK twice, gvim starts anyway.
> > Looks like this comes from a MinGW built binary, but I build Vim with
> > MSVC, so why is it needed?
>
> It is used from gettext (libintl-8.dll).
> Next release of gettext from @mlocati might not require it, though.
> See:
> https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/issues/8
I checked that renaming libint-8.dll to something else avoids the
problem.
Perhaps we should use an older version for now then?
I don't think we had this problem before.
When uninstalling Vim, with the uninstaller script, and then installing
it again, it complains that it cannot find the uninstaller. It still
continues, but I think this should be silently skipped then.
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