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We have an existing Wix installer that basically just takes
a set of .NET assemblies and deploys them to various folders on the machine
into the \Program Files\AppName folder by default. There are a few registry
settings under HKLM\Software\AppName that are written as well. On a 64-bit platform this will install into the Program
Files(x86) folder by default since we are using [ProgramFilesFolder] and the
registry keys are written to the reflected registry. I understand how to set
the package and components to be 64-bit and I can get all of that to work if I
duplicate the Wix scripts for 32-bit and 64-bit and build separate MSI. My question is this, is it possible to use the same Wix
files to build one MSI that will deploy the files and registry settings to
32-bit or 64-bit determined at runtime? Since .NET assemblies don’t
really care what flavor of the OS they are running against, I’d like to
have one MSI that deploys the files and registry settings to the OS appropriate
folders without having a second installer. If it is not possible to build a
single MSI targeting both, then I’d like some best practices, or even an
example or two would be nice, of installers that target both 32-bit and 64-bit
installs. I’m going to experiment with several things today. But
if someone could tell me what will and won’t work, or explain how to do what
I need to do (an example would be lovely), then I would be most grateful. |
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