Specifying the Installation Order of InstallShield Prerequisites

InstallShield 2019 Express Edition

The Redistributables view is where you specify the order in which InstallShield prerequisites should be installed if you include more than one in your project.

To specify the order in which the InstallShield prerequisites should be installed on the target machine:

1. In the View List under Specify Application Data, click Redistributables.
2. Add the necessary InstallShield prerequisites to your project if you have not already done so.
3. Right-click any redistributable and click Set InstallShield Prerequisite Order. The InstallShield Prerequisite Installation Order dialog box opens.
4. Select a prerequisite in the list and then click the up or down arrow to move it up or down in the order for installation.

Note • Note that when you are specifying the order, InstallShield does not distinguish between setup prerequisites and feature prerequisites. Thus, if your project contains a mix of setup prerequisites and feature prerequisites, they are all listed in one combined list on the InstallShield Prerequisite Installation Order dialog box. At run time, before the main installation launches, the Setup.exe setup launcher evaluates only the setup prerequisites and—if appropriate—installs them in the order that you specified on the InstallShield Prerequisite Installation Order dialog box. Then later during the installation, the Windows Installer engine evaluates only the feature prerequisites and—if appropriate—installs them in the order that you specified.

To learn about the differences between setup prerequisites and feature prerequisites (which are the two types of InstallShield prerequisites), see Setup Prerequisites vs. Feature Prerequisites.

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