Missing VISA support when creating installer w488.2 driver

[lavalava]

When I package NI 488.2 v2.7.3 driver with my Labview program installer, it fails to include its own VISA 4.6 driver.  As the result of this, MAX fails to list any other VISA driven protocol besides GPIB, my goal is to have it lists GPIB, Ethernet, & Serial under the device tree.  Somehow, I couldn't get it to do it.  I even tried packaging VISA 4.6.2 run time engine but it was pretty useless, it didn't solve my problem.  So this leaves me with one possible solution and that is get NI 488.2 driver to include its own VISA driver.  How do I do that?

[smercurio_fc]

NI-488.2 doesn't have its own VISA driver, so I have no idea how you came to that conclusion. NI-VISA and NI-288.2 are separate things and have separate installers. If you're using VISA and, for example, you're only using serial then you'd need just NI-VISA. If you are using an NI serial interface product then you'd also need NI-Serial. If you're using GPIB then you'd need to include both NI-VISA and NI-488.2 with your installer.

I don't understand your comment that VISA 4.6.2 run time engine was "pretty useless, it didn't solve my problem".

[lavalava]

Nevermind guys, I just found the solution.  What happened was the VISA driver was installed into another folder outside of program file (x86)\national instrument\......  Once that was solved on the computer that is creating the installer, it went away. 

_fc,

488.2 v2.7.3 does have VISA driver along with some other optional stuffs.  I can't recall earlier version but 2.7.3 does have it.  Regardless, I can't package anything else other than the base stuffs that came with it such as MAX & 488.2 driver.  I still have to include a separate VISA runtime engine along with my package to get it working.

[smercurio_fc]

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lavalava wrote: 

_fc,

488.2 v2.7.3 does have VISA driver along with some other optional stuffs.  I can't recall earlier version but 2.7.3 does have it.  Regardless, I can't package anything else other than the base stuffs that came with it such as MAX & 488.2 driver.  I still have to include a separate VISA runtime engine along with my package to get it working.

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You're right - it does. I don't know why it does. In my mind, it should be kept separate from NI-VISA.