The selections available on the Prerequisites page can be customized by adding a new subdirectory to the PowerBuilder 12.0\DotNET\pbiu\BootStrapper\ Packages directory. To this subdirectory, you add the package you want to make available and an XML configuration file that specifies where to obtain the package and what to check on the user’s system to determine whether the package needs to be installed.
PowerBuilder does not supply a tool to customize prerequisites. You can use the PowerBuilder Runtime Packager tool to build an MSI file that contains the database drivers and other PowerBuilder runtime files that your application needs, and use the configuration.xml file in the BootStrapper\Packages\ 1-PBRuntime directory as an example when creating your own configuration.xml file.
You can use the dotNetInstaller open source tool to set up your own customizations. It can be downloaded from the CodePlex Web site.
A comparison of Windows Installer tools is available on the InstallSite organization’s Web site.
