NI-488.2 14.0 Runtime installer does not work nicely with installer toolsets

[LeorG]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to build an installer that will run the NI-488.2 14.0 Runtime installer as a prerequisite package. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be packaged nicely as I am not able to find a one step way to silently install it. The reason for this is that the setup.exe file (along with 208 additional files and 35 directories) is packaged inside a self-extracting WinZip archive. Therefore, installing this requires two steps: 1) extract the archive 2) run the setup.exe with a /q command line switch. However most (maybe all?) toolsets for bundling installation packages cannot handle such a multi-step process. Every decent installer generally comes packaged so you can run it with one call and some optional command line arguments. Is there some trick here that I am missing to do this?

Thanks.

[ck.x]

Automation of the setup.exe inside the self-extracting exe is definitely supported, as you noted with the /q: Automating the Installation of a Single Installer

The surrounding self-extracting exe ws not designed to be automated, just provided for download purposes.  If you need this functionality, you could wrap the setup.exe (and supporting files) youself using standard compression tools or submit this to the Idea Exchange.