building 8.5 installers

[falkpl]

I am building an installer for an application under LV 8.5.  One step is to specify which additional installers are required for the application.  Is there any method of finding which drivers are required for the application that is being installed?  It seems to me the the installer script could tell me which drivers  (visa, 8.5RT, DaqMX ...) my project has dependencies on to simplify this process.  I think that I am wasting time going through this list determining what to include.  Is there an easy method of checking the dependencies of the project for the installer?

Paul

[Christian Mergl]

Hey Paul,

No there is no method telling you which drivers you are using. However, if you have programmed this application you will know which drivers are necessary.

You can also make a suggestion to implement such a technology in future versions of LabVIEW at the Product Suggestion Center - National Instruments

BR, Christian

[falkpl]

I did program and architect the entire application but it is a rather complex test system with several PXI devices and external devices for communication so I will have to add many components.  It would have been very nice if the application scanned the vis and determined the external driver calls so that I dont have to take the time in each application to determine which packages to include in my installer.  For example if the project makes visa calls, the installer should know that the visa installer should be included or I am making NI Switch calls then the project has a dependancy on NI Switch modular instrument drivers.  I do like this new project window in LV 8.5 and it is a great improvement over not using projects but more still can be done to increase productivity. 

Paul