You are correct... You cannot upgrade a 32 bit package with a 64 bit installer. Out of curiousity, do you have any install conditions?
As a side note, the program files in the (x86) are stored in a different registry than their 64 bit counterparts, hence the reason the upgrade was failing. You can minimize this behavior using an install condition and Property, i.e. <Property Id="32BitVersion"> Use the Filesearch Element described here to search for the x86 variant of your app: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/util/filesearch.html If the filesearch evaluates to true set the property to true, and if the install condition is true abort the upgrade... Carter Quoting Jamie Hankins <[email protected]>: > Yes, I had dug into the MSIs until my (virtual) fingernails bled! > Everything looked normal. > So it turned out that the client package that I was working against > is a really old one, and machines that we will be upgrading will > actually have a later version. I tried the later version, and my > MSI upgrades it just fine. > The main difference with the older package is that it is 32-bit, > which I didn't realize before, and the new package is a 64-bit one. > Will FindRelatedProducts not find a package with a different > platform (x86 vs x64)? > One other thing I explored was the ALLUSERS property. On my > package, it was 1. On the old package, it was 2 (with no > MSIINSTALLPERUSER). I tried changing it on my MSI, but still no > love. I can't tell you how many times I copied and pasted the > upgrade code, and went through each character to make sure I had it > right. Still FindRelatedProducts showed no hint of detecting it. > So, I really don't have to solve this problem anymore, since a newer > (64-bit) package is what I'll actually be upgrading. Unless someone > tells me that you can't upgrade a 32-bit product with a 64-bit > product, this will remain a mystery. > Jamie > >> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:20:51 -0700 >> From: Phil Wilson <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX-users Digest, Vol 95, Issue 39 >> To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." >> <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <caczvpra73kxdxbv26zkgx6m5s_ednjumvhreeqc27lcsrq7...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> If FindRelatedProducts had found anything it would have said so there, >> so I'd do a sanity check on the usual suspects, use Orca on the MSI >> files if you need to verify against MSDN docs. Also, the log would >> show OLDPRODUCTS being set. >> >> UpgradeCode the same in both products. >> New product has a different Product and Package code. >> New ProductVersion higher in the first 3 digits. >> The new MSI has an upgrade table that you can verify against the >> older MSI as regards version ranges etc: >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372379(v=vs.85).aspx >> >> --------------- >> Phil Wilson > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
