InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition
The default location for InstallShield prerequisite files (.prq) is:
InstallShield Program Files Folder\SetupPrerequisites
InstallShield lets you specify additional or alternative locations on your local machine, or on a network. This flexibility enables you to store InstallShield prerequisites in source code control and to share a common set of InstallShield prerequisites with other team members.
InstallShield offers several ways for specifying the search paths for InstallShield prerequisite files (.prq):
| • | If you are editing or building from within InstallShield, use the Prerequisites tab on the Options dialog box—which is displayed when you click Options on the Tools menu—to specify a comma-delimited list of machine-wide folders and current-user folders. |
| • | If you are building from the command line with ISCmdBld.exe, use the -prqpath parameter to specify a comma-delimited list of folders. |
If you use an .ini file to specify ISCmdBld.exe parameters, you can use the PrerequisitePath parameter in the [Mode] section of your .ini file to specify a comma-delimited list of folders.
| • | If you are building through MSBuild or Team Foundation Server (TFS), use the PrerequisitePath parameter on the InstallShield task. This parameter is exposed as the ItemGroup InstallShieldPrerequisitePath when the default targets file is used. To specify multiple paths, use an ordered array of paths. |
Instead of using hard-coded paths, you can use path variables in paths, as in the following example:
<ISProductFolder>\SetupPrerequisites,<ISProjectFolder>\MyCustomPrerequisites
The Redistributables view lists the names of the InstallShield prerequisites that correspond with the .prq files that are present in the various search paths that are specified on the Prerequisites tab of the Options dialog box. If the same .prq file is in multiple search paths, InstallShield shows only the first instance that it encounters. InstallShield first searches each path that is listed in the per-user setting on the Prerequisites tab. Then, InstallShield checks each path that is listed in the machine-wide setting.
At build time, if your project includes one or more InstallShield prerequisites, InstallShield searches the specified locations and includes the appropriate InstallShield prerequisites in your release as needed. If the same .prq file is in multiple search paths, InstallShield includes in the build only the first instance that it encounters. It uses the following order to search for .prq files:
| 1. | InstallShield checks the paths that are specified through the -prqpath command-line parameter, the PrerequisitePath .ini file parameter, or the PrerequisitePath parameter on the InstallShield task. |
| 2. | InstallShield checks each path that is listed in the per-user setting on the Prerequisites tab. |
| 3. | InstallShield checks each path that is listed in the machine-wide setting on the Prerequisites tab. |
| 4. | If no paths are specified in any of the aforementioned locations, InstallShield checks the default location (InstallShield Program Files Folder\SetupPrerequisites). |
InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition Help LibraryMay 2012 |
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