Hi Igor. Thanks for that. After reading your and Pally's message I realized that the project had "warnings as errors" setting turned on, which is why the build was failing with the ICE error. I think I will use the Win64 attribute and suppress the warning for now.
@Tobias. Thanks for your suggestion too. Eventually we want to be able to support both x86 and x64 systems natively but that could take a while. @Peter. I'm not sure about the upgrade table but I will surely look it up. Thanks. @Pally. Thank you for your detailed example on how to duplicate the RegistrySearch and your warning suppression suggestion. I will just use your code and suppress the ICE warning for now. @Neil. Thanks. I thought DTF's dependency was .NET Framework 2.0? In any case our product is based on .NET 4.0. we already have a condition for checking that, so it wouldn't be a problem for us to write a managed custom action based to .NET 4.0. Cheers Sharad Patel -----Original Message----- From: Igor Paniushkin [mailto:ipaniush...@sdl.com] Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 11:05 p.m. To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Can RegistrySearch read 64bit hive from 32bitpackage? Hi Sharad, There was already discussion in Wix-users about Registry and 64-32 bit redirection. I think it is not supported (documented) scenario by Microsoft Installer, but you can specify Win64="Yes" as you wrote already, but also suppress validation of ICE. It should search in 64 bit branch of registry (without redirection). Igor -----Original Message----- From: Sharad Patel [mailto:spa...@winscribe.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 10:58 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Can RegistrySearch read 64bit hive from 32bit package? We are currently using the v3.5 RC build. We have a 32bit installer that detects AppFabric using the following bit of WiX code: <Property Id="APPFABRIC"> <RegistrySearch Id="AppFabricRegistry" Type="raw" Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\AppFabric\v1.0" Name="ProductVersion" /> </Property> <Condition Message="Microsoft AppFabric was not found on this machine. Please install Microsoft AppFabric."> <![CDATA[APPFABRIC <> ""]]> </Condition> This works fine on 32bit systems but we get an error when the installer is run on x64 systems because AppFabric registry key only exists in the 64bit hive. If I try to use the Win64="yes" attribute on the RegistrySearch element then I get an "error LGHT1076: ICE80". All the searching I have does seems to suggest that 32bit packages can't access 64bit hive. Our application and the installer are both 32bit only. Of course without the RegistrySearch condition the installer works just fine on x64 systems but we would like to be able to detect AppFabric. So far writing an unmanaged (or managed) custom action seems like our only option. Is there a way to achieve this without a custom action? Thanks Sharad Patel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: WikiLeaks The End of the Free Internet http://p.sf.net/sfu/therealnews-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
