How to copy folder from within a zip using NSIS?

Question

I'm using NSIS to write an installer. I'd like to copy the 'lib' directory contained in a zip. Is it possible to specify that the contents of sampleZip.zip/lib is copied to, say $INSTDIR\lib?

The basic idea of what I want is this, though it obviously doesn't work:

File /r sampleZip.zip\lib\*

Any ideas on how this can be done?

Answer 1

NSIS does not have native support for this, you need to use one of the unzip plugins: NsUnzip, Nsisunz or ZipDLL

Answer 2

Rather than install the plugin, I just copied the libraries I needed using the plugin described at this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97640/force-maven2-to-copy-dependencies-into-target-lib.

Since I was the one building the zip file I wanted to access, I felt this way would be more reliable.

Thanks for the suggestions.