Issue: Installation of Intel® Parallel Studio XE with Microsoft* Visual Studio 2017 integration hangs and fails on some systems. The problem is intermittent and not reproducible on every system. Any attempts to repair it fails with the message "Incomplete installation of Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017 is detected". Note, in some cases the installation may complete successfully with no error/crashes, however, the integration to VS2017 is not installed. The issue may be observed with Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2017 Update 4, Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta and later versions as well as Intel® System Studio installations.
Environment: Microsoft* Windows, Visual Studio 2017
Root Cause: A root cause was identified and reported to Microsoft*. Note that there may be different reasons of integration failures. We are documenting all cases and providing to Microsoft for further root-cause analysis.
Workaround:
Note that with Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 Update 4 there is no workaround for this integration problem. The following workaround is expected to be implemented in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 Update 5. It is implemented in Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 Beta Update 1.
Integrate the Intel Parallel Studio XE components manually. You need to run all the files from the corresponding folders:
- C++/Fortran Compiler IDE: <installdir>/ide_support_2018/VS15/*.vsix
- Amplifier: <installdir>/VTune Amplifier 2018/amplxe_vs2017-integration.vsix
- Advisor: <installdir>/Advisor 2018/advi_vs2017-integration.vsix
- Inspector: <installdir>/Inspector 2018/insp_vs2017-integration.vsix
- Debugger: <InstallDir>/ide_support_2018/MIC/*.vsix
<InstallDir>/ide_support_2018/CPUSideRDM/*.vsix
If this workaround doesn't work and installation still fails then please report the problem to Intel through the Intel® Developer Zone Forums or Online Service Center. You will need to supply the installation log file and error message from Microsoft installer.