Advisories » MGAA-2017-0099

Updated mingw-nsis packages fix outdated (2.50) NSIS Windows installer

Publication date: 30 Oct 2017
Modification date: 30 Oct 2017
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 6

Description

This Windows installer can be use with MinGW cross compiler to build
Windows installer under Linux. for example digiKam is fully cross
compiled under Linux with MXE and at end an installer is build with
NSIS from the host system.  

The current NSIS version provided by Mageia is an older one (2.5.x)
which crash violently Windows 10 when installer is executer on target
computer. This do not happen with Windows 7 or 8.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21813
• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385368
• http://nsis.sourceforge.net/News

SRPMS

6/core

• mingw-nsis-3.01-1.mga6