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Thanks! And thanks for the open sourcing the tool and making it available.

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Some good points, and I will update the README with some of your suggested information. Until then, here is some upfront info:

What versions of makensis works with this project

Due to the excellent backward-compatibility, you can expect this library to run with version 3.x and most 2.x versions. Support for 2.x might be limited, since some features are exclusive to newer versions of makensis. Unfortunately, this is poorly documented in the NSIS changelog. As a rule of thumb: this library was designed with NSIS v3.01 in mind. Features unavailable in older builds will either throw errors or simply be ignored.

I know that the -PPO / -SAFEPPO parameters, as well as strict compilation (-WX), are only supported by NSIS 3.x. I assume that the same is true for the for -INPUTCHAR/ -OUTPUTCHAR, but I can't verify that assumption.

Operating Systems this lib supports

The makensis compiler is available for POSIX platforms and I've seen it being available for Windows, macOS, Linux and some BSDs. I'm not sure if Node itself is available on each platform supported by makensis, I only use Windows, macOS and Linux in my day to day work.

Does this require WINE?

No. I'd always recommend using the native compiler, but if you can't, Wine is a supported option.

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I've added prequisites and an additional disclaimer in the latest commits

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