MSVC 2017 merge modules

[mentalmushroom]

Hello

I am wondering why aren't there Visual Studio 2017 merge modules in the Advanced Installer (I have AI 5.5.1)?

I can see only Visual C++ 14.0 CRT in the list.

[mentalmushroom]

Just updated to AI 15.8 - still no merge modules for MSVC 2017.

[Daniel]

Hello,

It seems this happens because the VS2017 MSM paths has changed. We look for VS merge modules in this path:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Merge Modules

but the VS 2017 merge modules are deployed to this path:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\<VS edition name>\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.16.27012\MergeModules

Currently this is a limitation of Advanced Installer. We have added this improvement on our todo list and hopefully it will be available soon. We will update this forum thread when so.

Until then as a workaround you can use the "Add Merge Module" option and manually browse on your machine to a path like this:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Redist\MSVC\14.16.27012\MergeModules

if you are using the Professional edition of VS2017.

Hope this helped.

All the best,
Daniel

[Daniel]

Hello,

This improvement has been added in version 16.2 of Advanced Installer released on August 1st, 2019.

All the best,
Daniel