Dialogic 6.2 Manuale Utente

Installation

November 2009

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The first time install Finish page provides an option to:

Launch Configuration Tool: The installation program provides 

this option to launch the configuration tool as a default. Refer to 

 for details on how to use this 

option.

A Microsoft® Software Merge (MSM) module file consists of a 

simplified MSI database created to deliver components to an MSI 

application package. Like an MSI package, it contains instructions, 

components, and setup logic. Unlike an MSI package, it cannot be 

separately installed and must be merged into an existing MSI 

package. The merging process permanently alters the original MSI 

package by adding the merge module's components and logic to it. 

However, the merge module itself is not changed by the merging 

process and is reused when no components in the module need 

updating.

Each merge module contains unique version information that the 

Windows® Installer database maintains for each application to 

prevent premature removal of a component that the application 

needs. After you have included a module in your install package, any 

incremental version of a component in the module makes it 

necessary to create a new merge module. When Dialogic supplies an 

updated merge module, you must remove the old module and merge 

the new module into your existing MSI package. Merging in a new 

module eliminates problems such as version conflicts, missing 

registry entries, and improperly installed files.

To allow you to implement the merge modules feature of Windows® 

Installer, Dialogic separated the files in the Brooktrout SDK into 

seven sets of features and created one module for each set. You can 

merge one or more of these modules into your installation package 

depending on the features you want to include. The following 

paragraphs indicate when to use each module and what each module 

includes.

Merge this module to install the dynamically linked version of the 

Bfv API DLLs and supporting files.