CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c++visual-c++visual-studio-2015windows-installer
piu
piu

Reputation: 195

Install vcredist_x64.exe on install of VS 2015 installer Project

I have a msi installer project in VS 2015, and I have MSI dependency on vcredist_x64.exe (Redistributable package 2015). I am trying to install the pre-requiste with launch condition in installer project. But somehow the launch condition is always turning to be true so every time I click the installer it shows dialog to install vcredist_x64.exe every time even if its installed. The launch condition for windows installer project is as below snap enter image description here

and the launch condition is like below enter image description here

Can anyone help that kind of condition can be applied So that it installs prerequisite only if its unavailableenter image description here.

I have also tried adding with custom actions but that also does not work well and shows error as both MSI installer output exe and vcredist_x64.exe runs at same time, and any help is appreciated

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4716

Answers (1)

PhilDW
PhilDW

Reputation: 20780

You can do this with the Prerequisites button on the Properties of the setup project. The x64 redist is one of the choices that the setup.exe will install before running your MSI. It needs to be this way because it's MSI-based and you can't run recursive MSI installs, so you can't install it from your custom action, as you've discovered.

Can you provide a reference for the ComponentID you're using for that search? I have that runtime installed but that component id is not installed on my system.

Try one of these component ids from an inventory of my system, ids and descriptions. The minimum runtimes are the basic required ones, I assume:

{22824972-0C4A-31B4-AEEF-9FC7596F1305} Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\msvcp140.dll

{35B5C1D2-EB5B-3569-83EB-78E34F5C3254} : Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\concrt140.dll

{F5E98D96-3C7F-37D7-821F-E4BB03D4384B} Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\vcomp140.dll

{B33258FD-750C-3B42-8BE4-535B48E97DB4} Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\vcruntime140.dll

{7050289E-BECF-32C7-89DC-08C4480E482B} Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\vcamp140.dll

{D227D7DF-D9F8-33AF-B935-4BF2F47F2EA4} Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 x64 Minimum Runtime - 14.0.23506 C:\Windows\system32\vccorlib140.dll

Upvotes: 0

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