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Chapter 8: Organizing Files for Your Installation
Including Redistributables in Your Installation
Removing InstallShield Prerequisites, Merge Modules, or Objects from a
Project
Task To remove an InstallShield prerequisite, merge module, or object from your project:
1. In the View List under Specify Application Data, click Redistributables.
2. Clear the check box in front of the InstallShield prerequisite, merge module, or object that you want
to remove from your installation.
InstallShield removes the redistributable and any dependencies associated with it automatically.
Determining the Files in InstallShield Prerequisites, Merge Modules, and
Objects
If you need to see a list of files in an InstallShield prerequisite, a merge module, or an object, you can do
so from within the Redistributables view. The right pane in this view shows details about the
InstallShield prerequisite, merge module, or object that is selected in the list of available
redistributables. This details pane provides information such as which files a redistributable installs.
You can hide or show the details pane by clicking the Show Details button in this view.
Tip: For another way to see the files contained in a merge module or object, see Knowledge Base article Q106474. This
article contains a link to a downloadable Merge Module Dependency Viewer.
Working with InstallShield Prerequisites that Are Included in
Projects
An InstallShield prerequisite is an installation for a product or technology framework that is required by
your product. Some examples of InstallShield prerequisites that are included with InstallShield are Java
Runtime Environment (JRE), Jet 4.0, and SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. You can add any of the
existing InstallShield prerequisites to your installation projects.
Edition: InstallShield Premier Edition and InstallShield Professional Edition include the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor, a
tool that enables you to define custom InstallShield prerequisites and to edit settings for any existing InstallShield
prerequisites.
Including InstallShield prerequisites in your project enables you to chain multiple installations together,
bypassing the Windows Installer limitation that permits only one Execute sequence to be run at a time.
The Setup.exe setup launcher serves as a bootstrap application that manages the chaining.
The Redistributables view is where you add InstallShield prerequisites to Express projects.
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