Hi leichner,
My first question is what drivers did you select in the
Drivers & Components tab of the Edit Installer dialog?
Now, since you mentioned that you were using DAQ, I assume
you selected the NI-DAQmx 8.5 driver option. You may have already noticed this,
but you can expand the DAQmx driver tree and see several additional options to
select. Expanding this tree shows you different NI-DAQmx Runtimes you can alternatively
choose. By default, the Full option is selected which includes both development
and run-time support (in general, it includes everything). This will be your
biggest package. I would suggest choosing one of the Runtime options since you
are deploying and you don't need any development support. This in turn will
reduce the size of your installer. You notice that as you select the different
Runtime option, the "Total Size of Included Components" field
reduces. Also at the top-right of the dialog, you can see what components are
stripped out for each version of the Runtime. See the attached screenshot
"DAQmx Runtimes.jpg".
Essentially what happens is when you select a driver,
during build time of your distribution package, our deployment framework tries
to locate the components you selected from the last location that they were
installed from. In your case, the driver CDs. Now, you may have also
noticed in the Drivers & Components tab, you do have the option of caching
components which copies the component parts to the local cache on your computer
when it builds the installer. This will speed up building time.
Hope this provides some insight! If you are still having
issues or are confused, let me know.
Best Regards,
Jonathan N.
National Instruments
I just upgraded to LabWindow CVI 8.1.1. My question is creating a distribution application. I've written a small program (maybe a hundred lines of code, using two calls to a DAQ card). I needed to get the program unto a laptop to run a small NI USB DAQ card. I took me more then two hours to create a distribution application of 600mB big. The process kept asking for the May Driver 2007 CD's, the Nov Driver 2005 device driver CD's then ask for Measurement Studio CD then for the CVI CDROM. After a good two hours it finally finished a whopping two folders. Volume and Volume2 that would not even fit on a CDROM. I had to zip it to get it on the CDROM. There has to be bare bones version. A distribution CD used to be 6 or 7Mb big.I know you need the run time engines and uninstallers but there has to be a sane version of making a quick distribution application.
