Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-04-09 Thread Markus Karg
toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS That's a general problem with .NET binaries built for AnyCPU since Windows Installer doesn't have an AnyCPU type platform (would be nice if departments within Microsoft were aware of what each other support but I

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Dear WiX Community, we need to write a MSI file that has to install a 32 Bit software. It shall correctly install on both, Windows 32 and Windows 64. Is it correct to do one setup

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
...@quipsy.de] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:41 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Dear WiX Community, we need to write a MSI file that has to install a 32 Bit software. It shall correctly install on both, Windows 32

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
, March 25, 2010 4:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS But we do not own a 64 Bit machine, so how to do it on a 32 Bit machine? -Original Message- From: Lodhiya, Harshil [mailto:harshil.lodh

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Horsley
as it sees fit. Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de] Sent: 25 March 2010 11:11 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Dear WiX Community, we need to write a MSI file that has

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
that. -Original Message- From: Lodhiya, Harshil [mailto:harshil.lodh...@eclipsys.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 12:20 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Well you have to do it on 64-bit

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
: Thursday, March 25, 2010 4:59 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS But that's weird -- it would mean that it is impossible to install a MSI on a 64 Bit machine that was created in times when there was no 64

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Pally Sandher
: 25 March 2010 11:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Well it is obvious that msi created on 32-bit machine has no knowledge of 64-bit environment and if u wont to provide support to both 64-bit and 32

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Johann Taferl, T-AU
: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Well it is obvious that msi created on 32-bit machine has no knowledge of 64-bit environment and if u wont to provide support to both 64-bit and 32-bit OS, its required man...sorry.. you can try with it.. -- H -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Lodhiya, Harshil
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS MSI's themselves are built for either x86 or x64 platforms (or Intel64 aka Itanium but they're so rare it's not worth mentioning). Build your MSI for x86 as you normally do if a user tries to install

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Horsley
for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS MSI's themselves are built for either x86 or x64 platforms (or Intel64 aka Itanium but they're so rare it's not worth mentioning). Build your MSI for x86 as you normally do if a user tries

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Osmond
...@eicltd.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS As I said a bit further back, installing regular x86 MSI's on x64 windows systems works absolutely fine

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
Sounds good, thank you! :-) -Original Message- From: Richard Horsley [mailto:richard.hors...@eicltd.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 13:26 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS As I said

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread David Watson
Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto:mosm...@baytech.com.au] Sent: 25 March 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS I found one case where this doesn't work. It seems dotnet apps by default

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Osmond
Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Hi, In the past we have changed

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Pally Sandher
Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Michael Osmond [mailto:mosm...@baytech.com.au] Sent: 25 March 2010 12:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS I found one case where

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread akash bhatia
- From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:49 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS Hi, In the past we have changed the build targets from any cpu to x86

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Rohit Sharma (SIDC)
[mailto:richard.hors...@eicltd.com] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2010 10:26 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS As I said a bit further back, installing regular x86 MSI's on x64 windows systems works absolutely fine

Re: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question: 32 Bit MSI on 64 Bit OS

2010-03-25 Thread Jeremy Farrell
I can't imagine why you'd consider that to be obvious - it's nonsense. WiX is software, it can have knowledge of anything its authors want, and it can build any knowledge it needs to into an msi. An msi for a 32-bit application doesn't need any knowledge of the 64-bit environment anyway. You