Project builds with warnings but no errors, output has everything except setup.exe

[IanMcCarthy]

I've inherited a quite substantial InstallShield 2023 project from an external contractor and although it builds, the output folder (path ending in \Release 1\DiskImages\DISK1) contains everything I'm expecting (compared to a previous installation set) except than setup.exe is missing?

During the build I can see setup.exe get created, along with the other files and some temp files, but at the end, it's gone?

Now I'm getting quite a few "ISDEV : warning -6248: Could not find dependent file..." warnings, and then this output:

File table successfully built
Building MsiFileHash table
MsiFileHash table successfully built
Class table successfully built
Extension table successfully built
ODBCDataSource table successfully built
ODBCDriver table successfully built
ISSQLScriptFile table successfully built
ISSQLScriptReplace table successfully built
ISSQLConnectionScript table successfully built
ISSQLConnection table successfully built
ISSQLConnectionDBServer table successfully built
ISSQLRequirement table successfully built
ISComPlusProxy table successfully built
ISComPlusApplication table successfully built
ISComCatalogCollection table successfully built
ISComCatalogCollectionObjects table successfully built
ISComCatalogObject table successfully built
ISComCatalogAttribute table successfully built
ISComPlusApplicationDLL table successfully built
ISComPlusServerFile table successfully built
ISComPlusProxyFile table successfully built
ISComPlusServerDepFile table successfully built
ISComPlusProxyDepFile table successfully built
ISXmlFile table successfully built
ISXmlElement table successfully built
ISXmlElementAttrib table successfully built
ISSearchReplaceSet table successfully built
ISSearchReplace table successfully built
ActionText table successfully built
Condition table successfully built
AppId table successfully built
AppSearch table successfully built
Started signing 872F.tmp ...
Property table successfully built
BBControl table successfully built
Billboard table successfully built
Binary table successfully built
BindImage table successfully built
CCPSearch table successfully built
CompLocator table successfully built
Complus table successfully built
ControlCondition table successfully built
ControlEvent table successfully built
CreateFolder table successfully built
CustomAction table successfully built
DrLocator table successfully built
DuplicateFile table successfully built
Environment table successfully built
Error table successfully built
EventMapping table successfully built
FileSFPCatalog table successfully built
Font table successfully built
IniFile table successfully built
IniLocator table successfully built
ISAlias table successfully built
ISChainPackage table successfully built
ISChainPackageData table successfully built
ProgId table successfully built
ISComponentExtended table successfully built
ISCustomActionReference table successfully built
ISFeatureExtended table successfully built
ISFileManifests table successfully built
ISIISItem table successfully built
ISIISProperty table successfully built
ISLockPermissions table successfully built
ISNetworkShares table successfully built
ISObjectProperty table successfully built
IsolatedComponent table successfully built
ISRequiredFeature table successfully built
ISScheduledTasks table successfully built
ISSelfReg table successfully built
ISSetupType table successfully built
ISSetupTypeFeatures table successfully built
ISSQLDBMetaData table successfully built
ISSQLScriptError table successfully built
ISVirtualDirectory table successfully built
ISVirtualFile table successfully built
ISVirtualPackage table successfully built
ISVirtualRegistry table successfully built
ISVirtualRelease table successfully built
ISVirtualShortcut table successfully built
ISXmlLocator table successfully built
LaunchCondition table successfully built
LockPermissions table successfully built
MIME table successfully built
MoveFile table successfully built
MsiAssembly table successfully built
MsiAssemblyName table successfully built
MsiDigitalCertificate table successfully built
MsiDigitalSignature table successfully built
MsiDriverPackages table successfully built
MsiEmbeddedChainer table successfully built
MsiEmbeddedUI table successfully built
MsiLockPermissionsEx table successfully built
MsiPackageCertificate table successfully built
MsiPatchCertificate table successfully built
MsiServiceConfig table successfully built
MsiServiceConfigFailureActions table successfully built
MsiShortcutProperty table successfully built
ODBCAttribute table successfully built
ODBCSourceAttribute table successfully built
ODBCTranslator table successfully built
PatchPackage table successfully built
PublishComponent table successfully built
Registry table successfully built
RegLocator table successfully built
RemoveFile table successfully built
RemoveIniFile table successfully built
RemoveRegistry table successfully built
ReserveCost table successfully built
SelfReg table successfully built
ServiceControl table successfully built
ServiceInstall table successfully built
SFPCatalog table successfully built
Started signing 87BE.tmp ...
Started signing 87C0.tmp ...
Started signing 87D1.tmp ...
Started signing 87E3.tmp ...
Shortcut table successfully built
Signature table successfully built
TypeLib table successfully built
UIText table successfully built
Upgrade table successfully built
Verb table successfully built
ISDRMFile table successfully built
_Validation table successfully built
Searching project for extract-at-build components...
Building scanned MsiAssembly records
Building scanned MsiAssemblyName records
Validating Custom Action sequencing
Embedding manifest SetupExe.Highest.manifest into setup.exe
Checking string table references...
Generating RC file: _ISUser_0x0409.rc
Building dialog 12052
Building dialog 12053
Building dialog 12020
Building dialog 12068
Building dialog 12006
Building dialog 20010
Building dialog 12069
Building dialog 12032
Building dialog 10108
Building dialog 12054
Built 10 dialogs into resource file: _ISUser_0x0409.rc
Building RES file: _ISUser_0x0409.res
Compiling resource DLL: _isuser_0x0409.dll
Resolving strings...
Language English (United States) built
Embedding manifest SetupExe.Highest.manifest into setup.exe
Building .cab files...
Data1.cab built
Files built
Media table successfully built
Performing Upgrading and Patching Validation
Setup.exe created
Windows validation is disabled. To enable Windows validation: on the Tools menu, click Options and select the Validation tab.
Automatic update notification disabled
Product Configuration 1\Release 1 - 0 error(s), 170 warning(s)

Yes, quite a few warnings, but no errors and it says "Setup.exe created".

It's been a long, long time since I've had to delve into InstallShield, so I will accept my ignorance may be a hindrance, but can anyone clarify what's happening?

Are these warnings causing the final setup.exe to disappear, then why no error?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

[skrueger]

You probably check this but: are you looking in the correct output folder? there can be multiple product configurations each including multiple builds. If you click the "Open release folder" button on the toolbar it should take you tot the correct folder.

Another issue might be anti virus software which thinks setup.exe is dangerous and moves it to quarantine.