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Hi, I have a situation where I must include a DLL in the setup of several applications, but I must also create a standalone setup for this DLL. So I create a merge module for the DLL and include this merge module in the application setups and in the DLL setup. This works fine. Now I am wondering whe...

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Hi, following a suggestion from @Catalin, I am exploring the automation (COM) interface of Advanced Installer. Currently I am wondering what would be the COM equivalent of the "buildslist" command line parameter. According to https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/powershell-automati...

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Hi Catalin, this is really interesting. I didn't know I could use AI as a COM object. I will have to explore this further - it might simplify many tasks. Until now, I have maintained separate *.aip files for each upgrade code. I found the documentation at https://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide...

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Hi Catalin, thanks for the help, I didn't have the time to try it yet but will for sure. You asked Could you please let me know why you'd like to allow the installation of both on the same machine? The 64-bit application does not yet have the full functionality of the 32-bit app (because we don't ha...

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Hello Catalin, thanks again. Now that I have separate setups for the 32 and the 64 bit build, I ran unto two more problems: - The "Name" (under Product Details") is the same for both bitnesses. Since this name is displayed when the setup starts, it is somewhat confusing. I'd like to i...

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Hello Catalin, thanks, that did help. By the way, can I do this kind of magic also with AI projects that create merge modules? Like, create the 32- and 64-bit msm files in one project? I didn't find the "Builds" page in the msm project, just a "Build" page which appears to have a...

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Hi, I want to create separate installers for the 32 and 64 bit versions of my application, but I want to keep them in a common AI project and use separate builds for each bitness. The 32 bit installer should contain (and install) the file app32.exe, and the 64 bit installer should contain app64.exe....

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Thanks to Catalin, I was ale to solve the problem with a completely different approach. Rather than creating an exe type installer and extracting the msi from it, I now use two different builds in the Advanced Installer project - one to create the exe, and one to create the msi. This suits my needs ...

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Thank you Catalin. It's in the email.

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Hi Catalin, I hope this screenshot answers your question. 2023-04-13_17h04_06.png As for "can you confirm the VC++ Redistributable was installed?" - on the contrary, it was not installed, and I want to find out why and (more important) what I can do about it. (The "normal" instal...

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Update: I copied the file vc_redist.x86.exe to the same directory as the msi file, but that didn't change anything.

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Hi Catalin, I created a log file today and see the following lines: MSI (s) (9C:C8) [11:58:00:255]: Doing action: AI_VerifyPrereq Action 11:58:00: AI_VerifyPrereq. Verifying prerequisites Action start 11:58:00: AI_VerifyPrereq. MSI (s) (9C:14) [11:58:00:255]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\W...

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Here, if the prerequisite is not installed automatically, it means the "install conditions" were not met (it's possible that it is already installed). Hi Catalin, I manually uninstalled all versions of the C++ runtime from the target machine. When I run the installer (msi extracted from t...

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Add-on questions: 1 - Am I right to assume that the cab file(s) must be in the same directory as the extracted msi file? 2 - Is there a way to avoid the cab files when extracting the msi file from an exe type installer? When creating an msi type installer, I can include the cab files in the msi file...

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Hi Catalin,

it took me really long to return to this topic ${L_SMILIES_SMILE}$ but thank you anyway, it works perfectly. Sometimes happiness is just a mouse click away...

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