Missing files in installation of InstallShield 2011 LE on Windows 7?
I have an InstallShield project (InstallShield 2011 Limited Edition) for Visual Studio 2010. The project is created on a machine running Windows XP (32-bit). It builds an installation package for a C# solution targeted to .NET 4.0 Full profile. However, the same project configuration (*.isproj, *.isl) fails to build installation packages on windows 7. It turns out that the installation of InstallShield itself is different in Windows 7 compared to Windows XP.
When building the installation package on WIndows 7, I get several errors like the following:
On Windows XP, there are 3 subdirectory structures in `C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2011LE\SetupPrerequisites`:
| +- Windows Installer | +- 3.1 | +- Microsoft .net | +- 4.0 | +- WindowsImagingComponent | +- x64 | +- x86 |
These directories and there files are missing after installation of InstallShield on Windows 7.
If I add the missing directories and files manually, the Windows 7 machine can build the InstallShield project without problem.
Is this a bug in InstallShield or have I missed some features? I would like to be able to build installation packages both on Windows 7 and Windows XP using the same project setup without having to patch the InstallShield installation itself.
I understand that the error 1007 occurs at your end as it cannot find that particular prerequisite in the location specified in the error statement. On building the project on a XP machine the prerequisites listed by you are included in the project from the “Redistributables” view and thereby these files are present in the location C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2011LE\SetupPrerequisites.
On building the same project on a Windows 7 machine would not contain these PRQ files in that location unless it is downloaded. To download these files, kindly navigate to “Redistributables” view – Right Click the required prerequisites and download it from InstallShield IDE on Windows 7 machine. On doing this these PRQ files would be placed in the location C:\Program Files\InstallShield\2011LE\SetupPrerequisites.
