Third party installer and LabVIEW/VISA RT engines

[rdt]

I would like to use a third party installer (Q-Setup) for a stand-alone application I recently built using LabVIEW 7.1. The program was developed to run on Windows XP/2000/98 and requires serial communication with multiple devices. I realize LabVIEW and VISA RT Engines are required for this application, but am unsure if there will be issues with using a third party installer especially for builds across the different windows platforms (i.e., different RT engines for different platforms). The Application Builder provides options to 'silently' install the RT engines without problems, but I would really like to use a third-party installer. If anyone can provide some feedback about how best to include the RT engines using a third-party installer, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

[Dennis_Knutson]

There are not different run-time engines for different versions of windows. Both the LabVIEW run-time, VISA serial only  run-time, and regular VISA run-time engines are .msi (Microsoft installer) files that are available on your LabVIEW CDs. If the third-party installer can handle .msi files, you should be okay. One thing to mention, though. You said the app is for XP/2000/98. LabVIEW 7.1 is not supported for Windows 98 and neither the 7.1 run-time or application will install on 98. The last version of LabVIEW to support 98 was version 7.0.