I have a slight twist on a seemingly common issue... I've found many many posts about additional installers requesting previous media to complete a built but none of them answers my exact situation.
My main question is how do I get my installer to build if it can't find a valid installer for a driver component?
My application was last developed on LV2012. When attempting to build an installer for it, the installer
asked for Device Drivers - August 2011. That seems to be the one set of discs we don't have.
It was decided to upgrade to LV 2013 and install the latest and greatest drivers, then build the installer. We
did, and the installer still asked for the same thing. I did a mass compile on the project, scoured the project
folders and ensured nothing pointed to any 2011 or 2012 version VIs. Build again asked for the same thing.
So I invested the 5hrs neccessary to download the NI Device Drivers - August 2011 from ni.com. After running that installer, the drivers now are on my local drive. Great! But now when I run the installer and point to the folder as the location of the media, I get an error stating that the media provided does not have a valid installer.
I looked at the folders and files in the driver location and all that is there is a Product folder. All my other driver downloads have at least a setup.exe file, many readme.html files, and other SupportFiles, Documents, Install guides, etc.. None of that came down with the August 2011 drivers. I tryed a few things as far as pointing the installer directly to the product folder to be installed (488, VISA, and Serial), and copying other setup executable in the top level driver folders. None has worked yet.
So I really have two questions:
First, why is the app installer looking for 2011 drivers if everything is upgraded to 2013 drivers?
Second, how do I get my installer to build if it can't find a valid installer for a August 2011 driver media?