How to build a Labview Installer without MAX

[Rodnebb]

I have created a LV program, using VISA.

When I create a Installer, MAX is also included - this is not necessary, how can I avoid it?

Furthermore, how does one deinstall the NI libraries when deinstalling the product? Due to their size this may be desired.

[Anthony_de_Vries]

Go to installer properties ->  Additional installers -> un-check  NI Measurement & Automation Explorer. 

From controll-panel -> Add remove programs   you can uninstall   NI software.  It will asks which parts to de-install.

[Rodnebb]

Yes,

this sounds very logical, and has been attempted, but:

1: In Additional Installers NI Measurement & Automation Explorer is not checked.

(Only Run time engine, Variable engine, variable manager, visa configuration support and visa runtime is installed)

2: the installation disk created by LV is 200Mb, but the NI programs that are to be deinstalled are of only 4Mb - normally an installation expands on disk instead of shrinking, is the footprint of the NI runtime engine really only 4Mb on an XP machine?

[Anthony_de_Vries]

Maybe one of the installer options needs MAX and installs it even when you didn't include it?  I could imagine that VISA configuration support does that, as it's something that is related to MAX.

As for the size of the installation:  The Labview executable is often very small.  The Labview runtime that you need to run the executable tends to be large, especially when you need things like DAQmx etc.    

[Rodnebb]

Well, I may need visa configuration support - at least it is suggested by the program (what does VISA config support DO, btw?. I use VISA, but do I need VISA config support?). Both the LV runtime engine and the program developed by me are just a couple of Mb large. I was expecting to be able to deinstall a few hundred Mb of data.

[Rodnebb]

Nobody here who actually know how this works?