Running Another 3rd Party setup.exe after LabVIEW APP Installer is Done

[Anthony_L]

This question was asked before but the link to the solution is broken.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/940218c86275330a86256bba0074780e?O...

My objective is to run a 3rdy Party Installer after LabVIEW app installer finishes running.

-- I added that setup.exe to run AFTER LabVIEW App installation is done.

-- However, this did not work because the Windows stopped the setup.exe from running by throwing an error that a previous installer was still running.

Looking for a workaround to this issue?

Any ideas?

Anthony L.

[Jay14159265]

Use a post installer vi (that you create) to call the other post installer.exe. Set the lab view installer to run your post installer vi after the lab view install has run. This works great because you can programs the post installer vi to manage the final install step whatever it is. 

[Jay14159265]

Some more detail, 

1) create a "post installer.vi" that runs your desired setup.exe

2) use the application builder to create an application from your "post installer.vi"

3) when creating the installer for your main program, on the advanced page select "run executable at the end of installation" but point it to your "post installer.exe" that was created in the last step. 

bonus, doing this makes debugging the post install process super easy because it is all managed by the "post installer.vi" that you created.  Also don't be shy about using the "post install.vi" to handle lots of the actual install process, create directories, move files, check update servers, etc.