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MSI package should perform pre-req checks #4458
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Windows Package has some pre-reqs required. MSI package should give a good error message directing user to download and install pre-reqs rather than failing at runtime with an unactionable error message.
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bergmeister commentedon Aug 14, 2017
OK, so to summarize:
Steve Lee (@SteveL-MSFT) Aditya Patwardhan (@adityapatwardhan) I think I might be able to help with the 2nd item by following this approach from the official WiX guideline, which is to include and install the Visual C++ redistributables as part of the MSI installer. WDYT?
adityapatwardhan commentedon Aug 14, 2017
Christoph Bergmeister (@bergmeister) I think that might work. Thanks!
PowerShell#4458 MSI installer checks that the Windows C Runtime and V…
bergmeister commentedon Aug 16, 2017
Due to the fact that the Visual C++ team has made significant refactorings in 2015 (see here), the initial approach of including them as a merge module in the MSI has been deprecated. The alternatives are complex and therefore I think it is best to go back to just giving an error message as initially proposed by Steve.
bergmeister commentedon Aug 16, 2017
Aditya Patwardhan (@adityapatwardhan) : I created the pull request #4602 for it.
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Make MSI installer perform pre-requisite checks (#4602)
SteveL-MSFT commentedon Aug 28, 2017
There's an open issue #4665 for this, but we can consider this one closed.
Make MSI installer perform pre-requisite checks (PowerShell#4602)