Hi John, These are usually found under the 32-bit program files folder, more specifically C:\Program Files\Common Files\Merge Modules
On my desktop I think these have been installed either as part of Visual Studio or the Windows SDK, the optional feature "Redistributable Components" with the SDK or "Redistributable Merge Modules" with Visual Studio from memory should be what you're looking for. I think it's turned off by default but I can't be sure. Sascha On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:14 AM, John H. Bergman (XPedient Technologies) <john.berg...@xpedienttechnologies.com> wrote: > Sascha, Where does one obtain the merge modules you listed below? I've not > been able to find the VC Runtime as a Merge Module. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:42 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Microsoft merge modules and policy modules, what to > include? > > Hi, > > Looking over > http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/02/13/building-an-msi-using-wix-v3-0-that-includes-the-vc-8-0-runtime-merge-modules.aspx > I see the following note: > > <update date="2/11/2009"> Removed references to policy MSMs because the > general recommendation is to not include policy MSMs when redistributing the > VC runtime files. </update> > > We're distributing policy modules with our application (full module list > below) - can anyone point me in the right direction as to where this "general > recommendation" is documented? Or what problems including or excluding the > policy modules may cause or solve? > > As a side note, can anyone confirm if any of the modules I'm including below > are not required on particular operating systems? Specifically the last four > which showed up during a dependency scan on a 3rd party library we use. We > support Windows 2000/XP and later and from peeking inside the modules I can > tell that GDIPlus is not installed on anything later than Windows 2000 but > the others seem to have no such conditions. > > GDIPlus.msm > VC_User_CRT71_RTL_X86_---.msm > Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm > policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_CRT_x86.msm > Microsoft_VC80_MFC_x86.msm > policy_8_0_Microsoft_VC80_MFC_x86.msm > MSVCRT.MSM > COMCAT.MSM > MFC42.MSM > MSVCIRT.MSM > > > Cheers, > Sascha > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
