Re: [WiX-users] Wix and 64-bit questions

[Jeremy Farrell]

You can handle it all easily and cleanly from common source using the preprocessor to deal with the differences. I have a WiX source which selects on a variable at the top to set up all the necessary GUIDs, target folders, 'yes' or 'no' for the Win64 attribute, and so on for each of the three target architectures. The single selection variable is passed in on the candle command line. The paths to files which differ by architecture are also passed in. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Summerlin Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 08:20 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix and 64-bit questions Since most of my Wix code is just <component> definitions though it looks like I’ll need separate sources for the 64-bit <component> definitions and the 32-bit <component> definitions since the Win64 attribute marks them as 32-bit or 64-bit, correct? In the Wix documentation for <component> Win64 it states:   Set this attribute to 'yes' to mark this as a 64-bit component. This attribute facilitates the installation of packages that include both 32-bit and 64-bit components. If this bit is not set, the component is registered as a 32-bit component. If this is a 64-bit component replacing a 32-bit component, set this bit and assign a new GUID in the Guid attribute.   So it sounds like here that I should have separate GUIDs for 32-bit and 64-bit <component> definitions even though the assemblies that are being deployed are exactly the same. If this is the case, then I can understand the need for separate GUIDs, but it sure makes maintaining 32-bit and 64-bit installs twice as much work. Do I need to have dual copies of my <component> definitions for 32 & 64 bit?   From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:13 AM To: Kelly Summerlin Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix and 64-bit questions   Kelly Summerlin wrote: 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? No. An MSI package must be marked as 64-bit before it can install 64-bit components into the 64-bit parts of the file system and registry. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=""> for details. You can use the same WiX source but you'll need two packages. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org

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