I believe I have some more information about this after further testing. Basically, if I start up a 32bit command prompt (%windir%\SysWoW64\cmd.exe) from my 64bit machine, and run my VBScript, everything works fine. I would have thought that since my .NET class can natively run on either architecture, I should be able to register the DLL via Wix so that it can run from a 64 bit app or from a 32-bit app. However, since the COM server DLL is installed in "Program Files (86)", I can only write registry entries to the Wow6432Node.
Is this a Wix limitation? I suspect if I can duplicate the registry entries (a copy in HKCR and HKCR\Wow6432Node), I can start the COM server without issues in a 32bit or 64bit app. Cheers sanjay > -----Original Message----- > From: Sanjay Poria [mailto:sanjay.po...@xanalys.com] > Sent: 11 October 2011 22:31 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Registry key issues on 64-bit Win 7 > > I have created a Wix installer for a 32-bit application (not .NET) > which installs just fine. Recently, I had to create a COM Server > written in .NET consisting of a single DLL which also had to be > installed (and used by) my original application. > > So basically I wrote the COM server in C# (target=Mixed Platforms) with > the relevant interface and class decorated with the required COM > attributes by following the instructions in this post: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3360160/how-do-i-create-an-activex- > com-in-c > > Next I harvested the registry entries of the DLL and added the > appropriate component into my installer (it installs into "Program > Files (x86)\Company\ProductName") with the extracted entries. Now, > Installing on my 64-Bit Win 7 machine, the component above writes the > ProgId entries into HKCR but writes all elements of the form: > > <RegistryValue Root="HKCR" > > Into HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID > > This basically seems to break the COM server (eg, a VB Script fails to > create the object). However, if I mark the new component as > Win64="yes", the RegistryValue entries get installed into > HKLM\Software\Classes and everything works although Wix gives me an > error that I am installing a 64-bit component into 32bit INSTALLDIR. > > Can anybody provide guidance as to what I should be doing? > > Any help is appreciated. > > sanajy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
