If you ever need to read a section of the registry that differs from the
bitness of the process you are executing in you can use this Windows API,
RegQueryValueEx
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724897(v=vs.85).aspx). You can
change the section of the registry being read with the samDes
er
-Original Message-
From: Daetrin Nickname [mailto:gfin...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 April 2011 01:59
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry Search in x86 installers doesn't work
properly on x64 machines
Actually, after a couple hours m
Actually, after a couple hours more searching around i finally
stumbled across this bug report:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3013386&group_id=105970&atid=642714
I've spent so many years training myself that "Win64=yes" was for x64
builds and "Win64=no" was for 32-bit b
> Running 32 bit apps in a 32 bit shell is a great idea, but it seems less than
> ideal
> that it excludes all possibility of viewing the registry as it "really" is.
My point is that the operating system provides a 32-bit view for 32-bit
applications since they only know of the 32-bit world. A 3
gt; Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:49 PM
>> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
>> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry Search in x86 installers doesn't work
>> properly on x64 machines
>>
>> We actually already have two different installers. Howeve
Message-
> From: Daetrin Nickname [mailto:gfin...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 3:49 PM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry Search in x86 installers doesn't work
> properly on x64 machines
>
> We a
We actually already have two different installers. However the problem
is that we need to account for the possibility that they've installed
an x64 version of the main program on an x64 machine, and then try to
install the x86 version of the utility on the same machine. So the x86
installer needs t
I believe you need to issue two different installers and set the Win64
attribute for each RegistrySearch element.
You should not specify the Wow3264Node in the path.
If you need to do this in a single installer, you will need to condition the
search so that it only triggers for the appropriate OS
We're trying to do a couple registry searches at the beginning of a
utility installation to check for the existence of our main product so
we can take certain actions. Everything works fine when using the x64
installer on an x64 machine, but when we try the x86 installer all
the registry checks fa
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