INSTALLING NSIS
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This is a trimmed version of Appendix F of the documentation.

 - Requirements

   * Python version 1.5.2 and above (http://www.python.org/)
   * SCons version 0.96.90 and above (http://www.scons.org/)
   * C compiler

 - Installing

   * type:

       scons PREFIX="C:\Program Files\NSIS" install

 - More options

   * For build options, type:

       scons -h

   * For SCons options, type:

       scons -H

 - Special cases

   * If using the free Visual C++ Toolkit and Platform SDK
     (available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/,
      http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/),
     add MSTOOLKIT=yes to the build command line. For example:

        scons MSTOOLKIT=yes PREFIX=C:\NSIS install

     If path problems occur, try:

        set MSSDK=C:\Path\To\Platform SDK
        set VCToolkitInstallDir=C:\Path\To\VCToolkit
        scons MSTOOLKIT=yes

    * If a cross compiler is not available on POSIX, use:

        scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all

      This should only build makensis. Once you have makensis, you can
      drop it in a downloaded precompiled package such as the nightly
      build.