An MSI itself can be either 32-bit or 64-bit package, and it targets installing for that bitness (a 64-bit package cannot be used on a 32-bit platform, while a 32-bit package cannot access 64-bit sections of the filesystem). Typically your build settings set the bitness of the packages you create using the WiX toolset.
> From: rob...@softdev.net > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 07:33:17 +0000 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial > > Hi Phil/Blair, > > I'm just trying to get through the tutorial on a x64 machine. The problem was > resolved by creating the key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node. I > removed the key I had created in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. It now works. > > I don't understand "Do you have a 32-bit MSI" or "if you have an x86 platform > install". Are you referring to the WiX install? I don't remember being > offered a selection between x86 and x64 during the install - in fact there > wasn't one. > > Regards, > Robert Clancy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 3:26 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial > > The original registry search you posted doesn't have Win64="yes" so it will > be a 32-bit registry search if you have an x86 platform install (and it looks > like you do). > > Phil Wilson > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote: > > > If you are intending to use the 32-bit registry in a 64-bit platform > > in RegEdit, you need to start from the > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node > > (which is the 32-bit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE key). > > You make TARGETDIR conditional by setting a property by that name to > > the full path (hopefully with a backslash ('\') at the end) before > > costing starts in whatever sequence starts first. Same with INSTALLDIR. > > Subdirectories will automatically use the path set for their parents > > if a path is not presupplied. During costing, properties will be > > created for all directories that didn't already have properties (and > > each one will be set to the full path of that directory). > > AppSearch, et. al. will set the property you specify. So will the > > command-line. By default, the *Search actions will override the > > command-line. > > > > > From: rob...@softdev.net > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:52:18 +0000 > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial > > > > > > Thanks for both replies. I am indeed on a x64 machine and have no > > > idea > > how to distinguish between x86/x64 registries. I've probably created > > the key in the wrong one. Any pointers? To open the editor, I type in > > "regedit" > > > > > > If not that, then how should I make this conditional: > > > > > > > > <Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'> > > > > > <Directory Id='ProgramFilesFolder' Name='PFiles'> > > > > > <Directory Id='Acme' Name='Acme'> > > > > > <Directory Id='INSTALLDIR' Name='Foobar 1.0'> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2013 4:49 AM > > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial > > > > > > What often happens is that there is a custom action to set the > > > default > > INSTALLDIR location to the program files folder, and people forget to > > make it conditional, with a condition like NOT INSTALDIR. You may > > find that if you set INSTALLDIR on an msiexec command line it would > > also get overwritten. The NOT INSTALLDIR condition just means "don't > > set it to default if it's already set". > > > > > > Phil Wilson > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote: > > > > > > > "Adding" is not overridding, it is creating. > > > > That would suggest that there is no InstallDir value at > > > > HKLM\Software\Acme\Foobar 1.0 Do you have a 32-bit MSI and are > > > > trying to read a 64-bit registry location, per chance? Or vice versa? > > > > > > > > > From: rob...@softdev.net > > > > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:31:51 +0000 > > > > > Subject: [WiX-users] RegistrySearch example in tutorial > > > > > > > > > > I'm a novice user, going through Getting Started. I cannot get > > > > > the > > > > RegistrySearch to work, or FILEEXISTS - both from "Where to Install?" > > > > page in your tutorial. > > > > > > > > > > I suspect it is because this element: > > > > > <Property Id="INSTALLDIR"> > > > > > <RegistrySearch Id='AcmeFoobarRegistry' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' > > > > Key='Software\Acme\Foobar 1.0' Name='InstallDir' /> > > > > > </Property> > > > > > > > > > > is overridden by the subsequent > > > > > > > > > > <Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'> > > > > > <Directory Id='ProgramFilesFolder' Name='PFiles'> > > > > > <Directory Id='Acme' Name='Acme'> > > > > > <Directory Id='INSTALLDIR' Name='Foobar 1.0'> > > > > > > > > > > Meaning that if the registry sets a directory outside of program > > > > > files, > > > > then it seems to not work because later in the wxs file it is > > > > contained within ProgramFilesFolder. Logging reveals it is overridden: > > > > > > > > > > MSI (c) (50:AC) [16:21:36:966]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding > > > > > INSTALLDIR > > > > property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\... etc > > > > > > > > > > I realise the file is not read sequentially. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ---- > > > > -------- > > > > > Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and > > > > > AppDynamics. 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