Hi everyone,
I'm using LabVIEW 2018 SP1 f4 to build an application and its installer. Between two builds, I noticed that the installer size increase by ~60 MB. The new installer includes an additional folder with these files:
06.03.2019 00:29 253.952 CertInstaller_Wrapper.msi
06.03.2019 00:29 1.187.840 DotNet462.msi
06.03.2019 00:29 253.952 DotNet462_Wrapper.msi
06.03.2019 00:28 20.480 DotNet462_Wrapper_chs.mst
06.03.2019 00:28 20.480 DotNet462_Wrapper_deu.mst
06.03.2019 00:28 20.480 DotNet462_Wrapper_fra.mst
06.03.2019 00:28 20.480 DotNet462_Wrapper_jpn.mst
06.03.2019 00:28 20.480 DotNet462_Wrapper_kor.mst
06.03.2019 00:28 1.521 MicRooCerAut2011_2011_03_22.crt
06.03.2019 00:28 62.008.080 NDP462-KB3151800-x86-x64-AllOS-ENU.exe
06.03.2019 00:28 213.512 NIInstallCertificate.exe
11 Datei(en), 64.021.257 Bytes
So the installer includes the DotNet runtime. I did not change the additional installers in between builds. The actual program changes are fairly minor.
What I did was install SystemLink and in the process upgraded NI System Configuration from 18.5 to 19.0. So does that include the DotNet runtime now? It says in the 18.5 readme that "NI software installs VC2015 Runtime and .NET 4.6.2" which reads as if the DotNet RT should have been included before. There is no readme for 19.0 that I could find.
The installer is big enough as it is. Can I exclude the DotNet runtime or do I just live with it?