.... and by "will be built with the caller's architecture" I mean "JIT compiled to the caller's architecture" because this is happening at run time. --------------- Phil Wilson
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Phil Wilson <phildgwil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to add something that may be the issue with your setup. The call > stack is driven by the architecture of the starting process or Dll, so > if you have a 32-bit CA Dll then msiexec will be a 32-bit process to > call it. Your Dll then calls other Dlls. and If all these other Dlls > are AnyCpu then yes, they will "work" in the sense that you said they > can run on any architecture and so will be built with the callers > architecture, so you'll get a 32-bit Dll call stack on a 64-bit > system. That all works fine until it doesn't because it needs to do > something in the 64-bit world, such as look inside a 64-bit process. > --------------- > Phil Wilson > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Phil Wilson <phildgwil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yes something is checking the platform setting. Your comment is >> otherwise too vague. Since you need separate setups for 32-bit and >> 64-bit systems it's often best to make sure that all the code that >> runs during the install is of the appropriate bitness. You don't want >> a 32-bit (64-bit) hosting process or Dll trying to call a 64-bit >> (32-bit) Dll or some other invalid cross architecture thing. >> --------------- >> Phil Wilson >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Asbjørn Mikkelsen >> <asbj...@neslekkim.net> wrote: >>> So something is checking the platform setting on the dll ?, With VS2012 and >>> VS2013, I'm getting problems if I start to set platform to anything else >>> than anycpu on dll's now, what gives? >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Phil Wilson <phildgwil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> To expand on what Rob said, it all just works. On an x64 system the >>>> MSI service will be 64-bit. If you have a 32-bit CA you'll get a >>>> 32-bit msiexec process launched to host it. If you have another CA >>>> that requires impersonation, you'll see another msiexec process >>>> running impersonated. The error you're seeing is nothing to do with >>>> the with this architecture. It's just invalid for a 32-bit process to >>>> access 64-bit modules. You are enumerating processes or you have a >>>> process id that's 64-bit and you're using it from 32-bit code to >>>> access the process? As Jacob says, if you're on a 64-bit system and >>>> you want to do whatever you're doing, make a 64-bit version of your >>>> Dll. >>>> --------------- >>>> Phil Wilson >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:35 AM, John Cooper <jocoo...@jackhenry.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> > That is the technique I use and it is necessary when access 64-bit-only >>>> file system locations and the like. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > John Merryweather Cooper >>>> > Senior Software Engineer | Enterprise Service Applications | Continuing >>>> Development >>>> > Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050 | >>>> jocoo...@jackhenry.com >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] >>>> > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 10:32 AM >>>> > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >>>> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: WixStdBA launches 32-bit msiexec.exe >>>> for a 64-bit MsiPackage >>>> > >>>> > What is the bitness of your CA DLL? Just a stab in the dark but you >>>> might need to have it compiled twice, once as 32 and once as 64, and have >>>> the respective MSI package use the right CA DLL. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -----Original Message----- >>>> > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] >>>> > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 9:53 AM >>>> > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >>>> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [SPAM] Re: WixStdBA launches 32-bit msiexec.exe >>>> for a 64-bit MsiPackage >>>> > >>>> > Custom actions are hosted by Windows Installer in a separate custom >>>> action host process based on custom action type. >>>> > >>>> > _____________________________________________________________ >>>> > Short replies here. 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