On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:27:13 -0000, Hugo Florentino <h...@acdam.cu> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:23:00 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-12-16 17:46, Marco Leise wrote:
Hehe, I guess the whole purpose of the launcher is to run in
32-bit and detect at runtime if the 64-bit main executable can
be run or the 32-bit version must be used.
The only advantage of that is that only a 32bit launcher needs to be
distributed. Perhaps that's the whole idea.
It is. :)
"Process Explorer" by sysinternals, now distributed by M$ does something
similar.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
It is a 32 bit exe, which detects the OS bit width and if it's 64 bit
extracts a 64 exe from within itself to run. When you quit that 64 bit
exe, it deletes the file it extracted from disk. It's quite a neat
solution.
R
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