Ahh, cool. I was temporarily keying off of "ProgramFiles(x86)", but this is
another option, thanks.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote:

> If you happen to need to know what the base OS architecture is you can
> check
> for the presence/value of PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa384274.aspx
>
> -Blair
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Clugston [mailto:clug...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:26 AM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE - x86 MSI on 64bit Windows
> 7
>
> Yep. Thanks for the reply.
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Yeah, 32-bit processes on 64-bit Windows get PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86.
> > Start up a 32-bit cmd.exe and you'll see the same thing.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Andy Clugston <clug...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Users,
> > >
> > > I am working the kinks out of an MSI to support 64 bit. This is an x86
> > MSI
> > > that will run in WOW64 on x64 systems.
> > >
> > > The issue I am seeing is that the PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE is set to x86
> > > (rather than what the base OS architecture is; i.e. AMD64) within a
> > custom
> > > action that is running. This is observed when the MSI is executed on a
> > > 64-bit system.
> > >
> > > Is this to be expected? I can reason my way through it considering the
> > > WOW64
> > > environment, but I wanted to double check.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> >
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