[mkgmap-dev] NSIS Problems with 2G limit

Wed Apr 7 22:45:01 BST 2010

Hi Christoph,

you'll find the answer here: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/I_get_an_error_when_compiling_large_installers

There seems to be a limit in the archive format of the installer so that the compressed data may not be larger than 2 GB. The recommendation is to use a multi-volume install instead - that is to split the data into several files. Using plug-ins the installer can read those additional files and install them together with its regular payload.

As this is quite often discussed there seems to be no other workaround.

Regards
Thilo