CVI 9.0 missing dependency in distrubution

[gtoph]

I downloaded & installed the official 9.0 and attempted to create a new installer and it griped about a missing dependency:

Warning: Standard Run-Time module: cannot find 1 dependency with the following module ID:
  NIMesaDLL.6FE8CEDD_964F_47A2_8F23_5A607953B235

I'm not sure if this is really important or not, all I have checked is the runtime module and it says it builds ok.  How can I install this one to stop the warnings?

[JonathanN]

Hi gtoph,

Can you please look under the <Program Files>\Common Files\Merge Modules\ directory and tell me if you see the NIMesaDLL.msm merge module? My guess is no and that's our problem, but the question is why you wouldn't have this file. Before I start making assumptions, just tell me if you have this file installed. 

Best Regards,

[gtoph]

No such luck, the closest I have is nimesa.ver.  I -think- whatever mesa is is actually releated to measurement studio?  I had installed in some time ago just to play with it and then later uninstalled it... maybe it left some bits around that leads 9.0 to belive it's still installed?

[JonathanN]

Hi gtoph,

That merge module is installed by both products (i.e. CVI and Measurement Studio). The CVI RTE msi part has a dependency upon this merge module and that's why you are receiving that error since CVI can't pull in this dependency.  I was able to reproduce the behavior you are seeing on a test machine which had Measurement Studio and CVI. I uninstalled Measurement Studio and it left just the versioning file we use.  However, I wasn't able to reproduce the issue on other machines with a similar setup.  Now, you should be able to repair the CVI Run-Time Engine under Add/Remove Programs >> National Instruments and that should restore that missing MSM. 

To help me out, can you remember what software you had on that machine and what installation order you followed?

Best Regards, 

[gtoph]

Well to the best I can remember I had CVI 8.5.1 & measurement studio installed.  Then I beleive, I installed CVI 9.0, uninstalled 8.5.1 and measurement studio.  I noticed the problem here and actually did a repair twice on 9.0, but no luck.  I ended up uninstalling every NI component and reinstalled from scratch which seems to work now.

[Guillaume Dargaud]

May not be related, but one thing I noticed while having multiple installs
of CVI, is that I had duplicate entries in the [Library] menu. I had to go
into [Customize] at the bottom in order to do some cleanup.
But I think those are linked statically, so it shouldn't have anything to do
with the distkit.
--
Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/