ASA Programming Guide
Deploying Databases and Applications
InstallShield has used a variety of ways for including install components into an InstallShield project:
If you are using InstallShield 7 or later, you can include SQL Anywhere Studio InstallShield Merge Modules in your install program. These modules can be found in the deployment\MergeModules subdirectory of your SQL Anywhere installation.
If you are using InstallShield 6 and later, you can include SQL Anywhere Studio InstallShield Objects in your install program. The objects for deploying clients, personal database servers, network servers, and administration tools are found in the deployment\Object directory under your SQL Anywhere directory.
If you are using InstallShield Professional 5.5 and later, you can use SQL Anywhere Studio InstallShield Template Projects to ease the deployment workload. Templates for deploying a network server, personal server, client interfaces, and administration tools can be found in the SQL Anywhere 9\deployment\Templates folder.
If you are using InstallShield 7 or later, the Merge Modules are recommended. If you have InstallShield 6, the Objects are recommended rather than the templates, as they are more easily incorporated into an install along with other components.
For instructions on incorporating these InstallShield components into your install program, see your InstallShield documentation.
When building the media, you may see warnings about empty file groups. These warnings are caused by empty file groups which have been added to the templates as placeholders for your application's files. To remove these warnings, you can either add your application's files to the file groups, or delete or rename the file groups.