Hi Sam Have a look at these:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471424/wix-tricks-and-best-practices http://www.brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2007/11/13/x64-development-with-net.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/516730/visual-studio-any-cpu-target There are some good approaches that I've used for Wix and x86/x64 in the first link. Assuming all your projects are AnyCPU (and there is no special reason why you need x64 explicitly) then they will run in the correct architecture on the installing machine irresepctive of whether its an x86 or x64 Wix project. As AnyCPU determines this (see other two links). Just use the VS Configuration Manager to set AnyCPU for your non-wix projects that are in your solution that make up your MSI components for the different configurations. You still use x86/x64 for Wix but you set AnyCPU for any non-wix project in the VS config manager. You also need to create a global include file and set your Package/@Platform attribute in your product file. Doing it this way means you can then avoid all the Win64= attributes too. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Include> <?define Product_Version = "1.0.$WCREV$.0" ?> <?if $(var.Platform) = x86 ?> <?define Product_Name = "Foo v1.0.$WCREV$.0 (32bit)"?> <?define PlatformProgramFilesFolder = "ProgramFilesFolder" ?> <?else?> <?define Product_Name = "Foo v1.0.$WCREV$.0 (64bit)"?> <?define PlatformProgramFilesFolder = "ProgramFiles64Folder" ?> <?endif?> </Include> --- <Product Id="TODO" Name="!(loc.Product_Name)" Language="1033" Version="$(var.Product_Version)" Manufacturer="Foobar" UpgradeCode="TODO"> <Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" Platform="$(var.Platform)" InstallPrivileges="elevated" InstallScope="perMachine" Manufacturer="Foobar" /> <Media Id="1" Cabinet="media1.cab" EmbedCab="yes" /> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="$(var.PlatformProgramFilesFolder)"> ... Cheers Richard 2009/8/13 Sam K <sam.re...@gmail.com> > Hi All, > I wanted to upgrade from wix 2.0 to 3.0 and I have installed the latest > version on my machine. I tried to create a new wix project using visual > stduio 2008 and modified the old wix files to suit the new schema and when > I > tried to build, I noticed that I can only choose either x86/x64 platform. > Wix 2.0 had Any CPU option in it and I can't find it in 3.0. Can anybody > tell me whether it was removed? > All the code we have is .net and it was useful when there was Any CPU > platform option. Our dev machines are 32 bit and our qa/prod machines are > 64 > bit. > > Also I cannot build it for platform x86 because I have a component which is > x64. And if I build it for x64 I cannot test the msi on my machine. > > Error 2 ICE80: This package contains 64 bit component 'INSTALLDIRREG' but > the Template Summary Property does not contain Intel64 or x64. > > Can anybody please tell me if there is a solution for my problem? > > > Thanks, > Sam. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
