Dependency scanning, am I missing something?

[AaronJohnson]

I'm coming from the world of Visual Studio .vdproj installers, which will cease to exist in VS11. As such, I am investigating new installers packages.

I like InstallAware quite a bit so far, but the dependency scanning has me scratching my head. I have dozens of executables in my product, so scanning them all is tedious. Worse, many of them can't be run with an empty command line, not to mention the ten or so services. So far I haven't been able to build an installer that actually gets everything running. Is there no way to do a static dependency check, like Visual Studio used to do?

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

Honestly I used Visual Studio .vdproj installers, just few times.

What do you mean for static dependency? In wich ways it works?

Regards

[AaronJohnson]

Statics dependency checking looks at the executable image directly, without the need to run it.

[FrancescoT]

Dear Aron,

For what I know InstallAware only can executes dependency checking dinamcally.

Regards

[ZvikaCastel]

I find this dynamically scanning annoying, too. can't always make the executable to start in a clean release build environment. Not to mention Services.

[FrancescoT]

Dear Users,

Let me check with dev team.

Regards

[ZvikaCastel]

Waiting...

[FrancescoT]

Still checking!