I have an installer exe which takes a channel_id param as a command line parameter and uses it. The channel_id may be different for different downloads and installs. I want to host my installer exe on web in such a way that when it's downloaded and executed (by double clicking) the channel_id is passed to it in someway ,which should be equivalent to running the installer exe in cmd with channel_id as below.
cmd> myinstaller.exe channel_id.
How is it possible to do so ?
You can append data to the end of the .exe file.
You can include your param in the name of the file. For example, instead of setup.exe, call it setup_XXXX.exe. Then from NSIS you can read and parse $EXEPATH and extract your param from the filename.
Probably not the most reliable way to do this (if there is any), but you could probably check for the Zone.Identifier. I'm not aware of a way to this natively in NSIS, but you might be able to achieve by parsing the result through the commandline.
Try
nsExec::ExecToLog 'more < "$EXEPATH:Zone.Identifier"'
or
nsExec::ExecToLog 'dir /r "$EXEPATH"'
I've also found several Powershell (and VisualBasic) scripts that allow interacting with Alternate Data Streams, but personally I'm not a big fan of using third party scripting languages.
