Hi all,
very thanks to figure it out and solve this old problem.
best regards
Oliver
> Christian, the bitness of cleaner.exe makes absolutely no difference
> to your aim of enforcing 64Bit. I do not plan to change anything
> buildwise, only the C code, meaning it will still be a 32 bit
> executable. In fact I dread if I would have to look into the build
> system in Apache NetBeans of this thing. :-)
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 6:41 AM Emilian Bold <emilian.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > @Emilian Bold: Where would I document? Please point me in right
> >
> > direction. Thanks.
> >
> > I see these pages https://netbeans.apache.org/wiki/index.asciidoc are
> > on GitHub here
> > https://github.com/apache/netbeans-website/tree/master/netbeans.apache.or
> > g/src/content/wiki
> >
> > So you could make a PR against GitHub.
> >
> > > not that there should be any reason to be running a
> >
> > 32bit version of Windows in 2019
> >
> > I thought the same, but the brand new laptop I bought for codesigning
> > CoolBeans came with a 32-bit Windows although it had a 64bit
> > processor. I also had some vocal user complain about the lack of 32bit
> > builds.
> >
> > There are very few downloads though... only 3% of the total.
> >
> > --emi
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 3:11 AM Christian Oyarzun <c...@oyarzun.net> wrote:
> > > Lars,
> > >
> > > Is the plan to continue to keep the cleaner as a 32bit exe?
> > >
> > > $ file cleaner.exe
> > > cleaner.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
> > >
> > > The nlw.exe executable was built as a 64bit exe, which used to be 32bit
> > > in
> > > previous NetBeans releases. This would prevent using the NBI to create a
> > > package that
> > > runs on 32bit Windows (not that there should be any reason to be running
> > > a
> > > 32bit version of Windows in 2019).
> > >
> > > $ file nlw.exe
> > > nlw.exe: PE32+ executable (GUI) x86-64 (stripped to external PDB), for
> > > MS
> > > Windows
> > >
> > > This is actually what lead me down the path of embedding the JVM in the
> > > installer since 64bit installer will not find a JRE if there is only a
> > > 32bit JVM installed on Windows.
> > > It could be worked around by using the --javahome command line option,
> > > but
> > > embedding it provides a better user experience.
> > >
> > > --Christian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 4:05 PM Lars Bruun-Hansen
> > > <lbruunhan...@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > I've filed a Jira ticket :
> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-3094
> > > > with the aim to change the C code for the cleaner.exe to be able to
> > > > delete read-only files too. It is rather trivial. I've assigned it to
