Setup And Deploy

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:58 am

Just wondering what your thoughts are regarding setup-and-deploy.

I tried mine, did a setup and deploy project on a Visual Studio 2005 XP OS and the results were:

1) The msi package installed and the test game program ran OK on the XP test machine.

2) The msi installed but the test game program did not run on a Vista 64 machine.

What would I need to do to have only one setup/install package for XP/Vista + 32/64 config?

Also, are there any other install packages out there that I could use?

Sylence · Post by **Sylence** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:41 am

Did you try to run the game on the other machine without installing?
Maybe this is just a simple problem caused by missing dlls, etc.

I never tried it by myself but the NullSoft installer is said to be good.

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:03 pm

I'm using InnoSetup and it can check for the complete setup and each file to be installed on a specific system !!!

screenshot from InnoTool:

so if you need to install different files for different systems you can manage it this way...

but I'm sure other setup tools can do this, too...

dlangdev · Post by **dlangdev** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:23 pm

I made some progress. It turns out the Vista Service Pack for Visual Studio 2005 was needed to target Vista configuration setup.

It now works on both XP and Vista, though I still need to do more testing for non-developer machines. They might need DX9, VC Runtine, Etc that the Setup-And-Deploy should be aware of.

I'll check the packages you posted above. They should provide additional help as well.

I've downloaded both setup progs as well and will check them out later.