Am Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:30:25 -0000 schrieb "Regan Heath" <re...@netmail.co.nz>:
> 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 > Only if your executable is self-contained. If you already have external DLLs or assets you can as well have a launcher and 2 actual binaries. -- Marco
