Take the 2-minute tour ×  When I run a silent NSIS installer
(from the console, as in installer.exe /S /D=C:\Foo) it
immediately moves to the background. I'd like to wait until it
has finished installing before I do anything else. Is there a
flag I can pass to tell the installer to be blocking?
share|improve this question How are you calling your installer?
From a console? –  Francisco R Apr 18 '13 at 17:39 add comment
1 Answer  up vote 2 down vote accepted  You don't say anything
about how you start the process in your question! NSIS
installers are always "blocking", for a silent installer this
means you just have to wait for the child process to end.  If
the parent process is also a NSIS installer you can do ExecWait
'"c:\path\to\installer.exe" /S /D=C:\Foo' or if it is a batch
file you must use start "" /WAIT "c:\path\to\installer.exe" /S
/D=C:\Foo  share|improve this answer I clarified my question,
and the start trick certainly works. Why is it that that is
needed with a silent nsis installer and not, f