将Visual Studio Installshield项目从Windows XP移至Windows 7

Question

I have a Visual Studio project that compiles correctly on a Windows XP computer. I have copied the entire project to another PC running Windows 7 and it generates compilation errors.

The application uses .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual C++ redistributables, installed locally. It couldn't find these.

I realised that it was looking for the Microsoft.net in

c:\Program Files\Installshield\2012SpringLE\SetupPrerequisites

By right-clicking on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 entry in the Redistributables (Installshield) window I was able to search for the merge module and corrected it to

c:\Program Files (x86)\Installshield\2012SpringLE\SetupPrerequisites

That overcame the .NET Framework 4.0 problem

However, I can't find the merge modules for the Visual C++ entry in the Redistributables (Installshield) window. Can anyone tell me where they are?

Answer 1

This is one of the big reasons that I suggest not only building on your machine. A proper CI build system should run on any number of build servers.

For merge modules you need to look at your merge module search path found in Tools | Options | Merge Modules Search those directories for your merge modules and copy them over to your new server.

For pretty much everything else you need to be aware of the Path Variables view (abstraction) what they are set to and how they are being used by various tables such as Binary, File, Icon and so on.

Personally I'm very meticulous when it comes to managing this and making sure everything is checked into source control properly. InstallShield will allow you to do very bad things in this area and not warn you what you are doing is problematic.