Installing the Standalone Build to a Build Machine

The Standalone Build is available to users of InstallShield Premier Edition. In addition, support for multilanguage installations is available with InstallShield Premier Edition only.

Installing the Standalone Build

The installation for the Standalone Build consists of a single, compressed Setup.exe file. It includes all of the files that are required for building multilanguage installations.

Locate the Setup.exe file for the Standalone Build:

If you have the InstallShield CD, the file is on the CD and you can find it using the CD Browser.

If you downloaded InstallShield, the file is available through the Update Service. For more information, see Obtaining Updates for InstallShield.

Double-click the Setup.exe file.

Adding Redistributables to the Build Machine for the Standalone Build

Most of the redistributables—including merge modules, objects, and setup prerequisites—are not installed automatically with the Standalone Build because they would require significantly more hard disk space. This allows you install on the build machine only the redistributables that are required by your InstallShield projects. The only one that is included is the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable.

Locate the required redistributables on the machine that has the full version of InstallShield. The file is typically located in InstallShield Program File Folder\Redist or a subfolder of the Redist folder. If an InstallShield redistributable is not available on your machine, you must download it first. For more information, see Redistributable Downloader Wizard.

Copy the redistributable from the machine that has InstallShield to the Standalone Build Program Files Folder on the build machine.

To add a redistributable for Basic MSI or InstallScript MSI projects to your build machine:

Locate the required redistributables on the machine that has the full version of InstallShield. If an InstallShield redistributable is not available on your machine, you must download it first. For more information, see Downloading Redistributables to Your Computer.

The two default locations for InstallShield merge modules are:

InstallShield Program Files Folder\Modules\i386

Common Files\Merge Modules

The default location for the InstallShield objects is:

InstallShield Program Files Folder\Objects

All setup prerequisites are stored in the following location:

InstallShield Program Files Folder\SetupPrerequisites

If you built your own merge modules in InstallShield, you would find them in any of the locations that are listed on the Merge Modules tab of the Options dialog box.

Copy the redistributable from the machine that has InstallShield to appropriate location on the build machine.

Add merge modules to the following folder:

Standalone Build Program Files Folder\Modules\i386

Add objects to the following folder:

Standalone Build Program Files Folder\Objects

Add setup prerequisites to the following folder:

Standalone Build Program Files Folder\SetupPrerequisites

To add to your build machine one of the InstallShield redistributables for InstallScript projects:

Download the installation for the redistributable. The installations are available through the Update Service. For more information, see Obtaining Updates for InstallShield.

Run the redistributable installation on the build machine. When the InstallShield Wizard displays the Choose Destination Location dialog, browse to the following location:

Standalone Build Program Files Folder\ObjectsPro

If the ObjectsPro folder has not been created yet, you will need to add that folder.

To add to your build machine one of your own InstallScript redistributables or a third-party redistributable:

Locate the redistributable.

Place it in the following location on the build machine:

Standalone Build Program Files Folder\ObjectsPro

If the ObjectsPro folder has not been created yet, you will need to add that folder.