deployment utility drivers and components, some missing?

[Snood1]

I have Testand 3.5 and LabWindows/CVI 8.5 installed on my machine.  I would like to modify an existing TestStand deployment to include the LabWindows/CVI 8.5 Run-Time Engine, so that the installed program can run as an executable on the target system(s) without requiring a full install of LW/CVI.  When I click on "Installer Options" and then "Drivers and Components" I see that the LW/CVI 8.1 RTE is available, but not 8.5.  I've never had 8.1 on my machine.  I have 7.1 and 8.5 installed.  (See attached screenshot.)  I assumed that the 8.5 RTE would be installed along with LW/CVI 8.5, but is this not the case?

-Joel

[NestorG]

Hi Joel,

This is most definitely a bug with the NI Build Installer. The bug has been reported under ID 100489.

Rest assured however that although the Drivers and Components list shows CVI 8.1 RTE, it will actually bundle the CVI 8.5 RTE with the deployed system. This is true since the Build Installer captures the CVI Run-time from: C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\ProductCache, which contains the latest CVI RTE.

Thanks for the info Joel.

[Joe_H]

I do not think that this is a BUG. I do not think that TS 3.5 supports CVI 8.5 therefore it will not show up in the additional installers. I had this same problem with LV 8.5 and TS 3.5. I could run my VI's and edit them and everything else but when I went to create an installer I could not select the 8.5 runtime engine. Sounds like the same kind of thing. Now I have TS 4.0 and everything works fine now.

just my 2 cents.