InstallAnywhere 2020
Testing is an essential part of creating an installer. After the build process is complete, you can test the installer by clicking either of the following buttons in the Build Installers view on the Build page in the Advanced Designer.
| • | Try Installer—To run the default installer for your operating system, click this button. |
Note • If two or more installers are built for your operating system, InstallAnywhere shows a control that lists the installers that you can try.
| • | Try Web Install—To test the installation by launching a Web browser and the Web install page that InstallAnywhere generates at build time, click this button. |
Note • To assist in troubleshooting when running an installer on a Windows platform, it is possible to display debug output in a console window. To display debug output during installation, hold down the Control (Ctrl) key when launching the installer. This functionality is available only if you are using a Windows-based LaunchAnywhere setup launcher or the Try Installer button in the Build Installers view.
Multiple Target Installers
If, after the project has been built, more than one supported target installer is available for the authoring platform, InstallAnywhere displays a selection list between the Build All and Try Installer buttons. If there are none or only one supported target installer, InstallAnywhere does not display this list.
The name that InstallAnywhere displays for each target installer uses one of the following formats:
| • | Without VM— OutputFolderName_BuildConfigurationName |
| • | With VM—OutputFolderName_BuildConfigurationName - BundledVMName |
Testing Installers for Other Platforms
If you are building installers for platforms other than the one on which the installer is being developed, transfer that installer to the supported target systems, and run those installers manually. By default, InstallAnywhere creates the installers in the Build_Output directory in the same folder as the .iap_xml project file.
The Build_Output directory contains a subfolder for each build configuration in the project. Each build configuration directory in the Build_Output folder contains a Web_Installers folder, a CDROM_installers folder, or both. These folders contain subfolders for the various platforms that your project supports. For the CDROM installer, transfer the entire contents of the CDROM_Installers folder.
InstallAnywhere 2020 Help LibraryOctober 2019 |
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