Analysis Support files

[Mads]

We normally build our install sets with a third party tool and to avoid having NI's name anywhere we include all files in that set.

With LV7.1 it's no longer enough to just have the lvanlys.dll included if you use any of the analysis functions though - and the question is; do we really have to build the installer in the application builder and check the include support for analysis VIs under advanced to get this to work...or could we just include some additional dlls etc.?

[Nanxiong_Zhang]

In LV 7.1, lvanlys.dll and other DLLs it needs are included in the Rum-Time Engine of LabVIEW. So you don't need to add any files in the application builder.

[Mads]

OK, but if you do not want to install the whole run-time engine (e.g. to avoid having files in Program Files\National Instruments, which our users would not recognise as something they need and may delete) you could previously get away with having the run-time files in the same folder as your executable. Is that now impossible?

It would *very* be nice if NI made it easier to build custom installers that include all necessary files; and that place support files somewhere less accessible to the user and not labeled LabVIEW, National Instruments, VISA etc...(I haven't checked it in LV7.1 yet, but LV7 insists on creating a LabVIEW Data folder as well, overrunning it in the application ini-file does not work...).

The installer builder use merge files (whic
h one includes the analysis support?) and those files could be used in installers made in other software, however they are not documented to make that easy...And as far as I can see they have so many dependancies that one would have to include all the .msm files.

[Mads]

Another things is that the RTE for LV7.1 is huge. The way we included files in LV7 we could build installers with the necessary RTE support that we could e-mail (3-5 MB)...