This is just work (mostly build system work at that). It should be done. Just
need someone to step up. <smile/>
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From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 12:55 AM
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] x64 extensions binaries for Windows Server 2016 without
WoW64
The ability to remove WoW64 has been there since Server 2008. Almost nobody
removes it, since almost all workloads seem to require it (at least on some
level).
In theory all of the current code should be able to be built 64-only (probably
with some proj file changes), but some of the system DLLs that the
packaging-time tools (light, etc) make use of are only supplied by MSFT in
32-bit form (even on 64-bit platforms), so creating MSIs requires the build
machines, if 64-bit, to have WoW64 installed.
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From: Alessandro Pilotti<mailto:apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 4:45 AM
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net>
Hi guys,
Being this is my first email to the ML, let me start with a big thank you for
your great work developing and maintaining the WiX toolset!
The upcoming Windows Server 2016 (Threshold) provides the option to avoid
deploying the WoW64 32 bit subsystem, meaning that any x86 exe / dll won’t work.
To remove WoW64 from e.g. a TP2 installation:
Remove-WindowsFeature WoW64-Support
WiX extension DLLs (WixUIExtension, WixUtilExtension, etc) are provided in x86
form only in binary downloads, meaning that any attempt to deploy an MSI that
uses any of them in the above use case will fail.
Do you guys plan to package x64 versions as well in upcoming releases?
For Wix 3.9, is there a way to build the extensions targeting x64 skipping the
rest of the WiX build?
Thanks!
Alessandro
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