Impact Acquire SDK Python
Windows®

Current versions of the Impact Acquire framework will be distributed as EXE files. These files contain so called bootstrappers - a special package format to distribute multiple files as a single installation. The internal underlying technology is also MSI. More information about this topic can be found here: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/tools/burn/

Note
Since version 2.18.0 of this SDK all Balluff Impact Acquire Windows® installation packages contain kernel-mode drivers signed for different target platforms. During installation the merge modules will decide which driver is the one most suitable for the target system. Currently each merge module containing kernel modules will contain 3 different flavors of this module:

This SDK currently is built using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2019. When building a custom installation therefore the required Microsoft Visual Studio® runtime libraries must be installed on the target machine. The recommended way of doing that is by installing the corresponding redistributables:

  • vcredist.x86.exe (for 32-bit target systems AND 64-bit target systems that shall execute 32-bit applications)
  • vcredist.x64.exe (for 64-bit target systems. This package does NOT include the 32-bit versions of the redistributables!)

Further reading: