Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-04-09 Thread Markus Karg
riginal Message- > From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 6:26 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS > > That's a general

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Jeremy Farrell
I can't imagine why you'd consider that to be "obvious" - it's nonsense. WiX is software, it can have knowledge of anything its authors want, and it can build any knowledge it needs to into an msi. An msi for a 32-bit application doesn't need any knowledge of the 64-bit environment anyway. You

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Rohit Sharma (SIDC)
ult was a broken app. Would be interested if anyone had a way around this. Michael -Original Message- From: Richard Horsley [mailto:richard.hors...@eicltd.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question:

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread akash bhatia
From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] > Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:49 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS > > Hi, >In the past we have changed the build target

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Pally Sandher
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Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Osmond
Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Hi, In the past we have change

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread David Watson
Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto:mosm...@baytech.com.au] Sent: 25 March 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS I found one case where this doesn't work. It seems dotnet apps

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
Sounds good, thank you! :-) > -Original Message- > From: Richard Horsley [mailto:richard.hors...@eicltd.com] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 13:26 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Osmond
.hors...@eicltd.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS As I said a bit further back, installing regular x86 MSI's on x64 windows systems works absolutel

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Horsley
ussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS MSI's themselves are built for either x86 or x64 platforms (or Intel64 aka Itanium but they're so rare it's not worth mentioning). Build your MSI for x86 as you no

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS MSI's themselves are built for either x86 or x64 platforms (or Intel64 aka Itanium but they're so rare it's not worth mentioning). Build your MSI for x86 as you normally do & if a user t

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Johann Taferl, T-AU
1 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Well it is obvious that msi created on 32-bit machine has no knowledge of 64-bit environment and if u wont to provide support to both 64-bit and 32-bit OS, its requir

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Pally Sandher
hil.lodh...@eclipsys.com] Sent: 25 March 2010 11:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Well it is obvious that msi created on 32-bit machine has no knowledge of 64-bit environment and if u wont to

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS But that's weird -- it would mean that it is impossible to install a MSI on a 64 Bit machine that was created in times when there

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
lieve that. > -Original Message- > From: Lodhiya, Harshil [mailto:harshil.lodh...@eclipsys.com] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 12:20 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS > &

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Horsley
When I have done this before, the msiexec on the machine installing the software has always handled the package correctly (placing items in syswow on x64 machines for files and registry as well as Program Files (x86)) on both machines. AFAIK you only need to specify x64 folders if your package

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
, March 25, 2010 4:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS But we do not own a 64 Bit machine, so how to do it on a 32 Bit machine? > -Original Message- > From: Lodhi

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS > > Just create your MSI on 64-bit machine with the DLLs created as target > x86, and it will run on both 32-bit\64-bit machine. 64-bit OS will > automatically take care of system folder. > > > > -- H > &

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
Just create your MSI on 64-bit machine with the DLLs created as target x86, and it will run on both 32-bit\64-bit machine. 64-bit OS will automatically take care of system folder. -- H -Original Message- From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:41 PM