I believe it also controls the default bit-ness for the "Win64" attribute on certain things like RegistrySearches, Components, and binary Custom Actions (if you specify a 64-bit architecture, these will default to 64-bit).
To see where it's used in the code, I'd open src\wix\compiler.cs and search for "currentplatform". Once you get past the initial few results (which are just common infrastructure), you'll see where it actually takes effect. Thanks, Mike Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Quinton Tormanen [mailto:quint...@deltacompsys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] candle -arch Rob's latest blog refers to the -arch option for candle. I can't find any documentation for what that does example. It apparently implicitly sets the Package/@Platform. What else does it do? I tried following it in the code, but got lost pretty quick. My project uses $(var.Platform) in Package/@Description, Package/@Comments, Package/@Platform, and in the precompiler to choose launch conditions. I just set it using candle -dPlatform=... Quinton Tormanen Software Engineer Delta Computer Systems, Inc. http://www.deltamotion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
