Prerequisites

[Finn Stampe Mikkelsen]

Does the prerequisites dialog in the VS2008 Setup Project list alle
prerequisites or is further investigation needed to determine all
prerequisites needed to run the project after install on costumer pc??

/Finn
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[Peter Duniho]

Does the prerequisites dialog in the VS2008 Setup Project list alle
prerequisites or is further investigation needed to determine all
prerequisites needed to run the project after install on costumer pc??

I suppose that depends on your definition of "prerequisite" and the
project itself.

I can easily make a project that won't run without additional
configuration, with or without a Setup project that has specific
prerequistites listed. Presumably, one normally would attempt to include
all prerequisites in the Setup project, but without knowing anything about
the project specifically, there's no way to _guarantee_ that those are the
only actual prerequisites (unless, of course, you limit your definition of
"prerequisite" to mean simply those listed in the Setup project, in which
case the answer is trivially "yes, they are all listed in the Setup
project").

Pete

 

[Finn Stampe Mikkelsen]

I suppose that depends on your definition of "prerequisite" and the
project itself.

I can easily make a project that won't run without additional
configuration, with or without a Setup project that has specific
prerequistites listed. Presumably, one normally would attempt to include
all prerequisites in the Setup project, but without knowing anything about
the project specifically, there's no way to _guarantee_ that those are the
only actual prerequisites (unless, of course, you limit your definition of
"prerequisite" to mean simply those listed in the Setup project, in which
case the answer is trivially "yes, they are all listed in the Setup
project").

Hi Pete

What i mean is, that looking aside from third-party dll's and such, will the
setup project added to a standard working VS2008 project, include all the
needed prerequisites?

if i have a roque dll or a reference to a third-party tool with dll, i add
that myself, but can i asume that if an option is not checked, it is not
needed?

/Finn

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...]
if i have a roque dll or a reference to a third-party tool with dll, i
add that myself, but can i asume that if an option is not checked, it is
not needed?

You can assume whatever you like. The assumption may sometimes be wrong,
but I would say that generally speaking it should be a safe assumption to
make.

Pete