[wix-users] Is there any way around WIN64DUALFOLDERS substitution?

[David Watson]

The 'by the book' way of doing this is to have a 64 bit MSI which can also deploy 32 bit components. But of course this does not work on 32 bit OS so you end up with a package for both and something that selects the right MSI on a per OS basis. It's not too tricky to build multiple bitness/architecture MSIs with the same set of code.

You are fighting the system a bit.

Would a separate directory search rooted under the 64bit program files folder work, it may suffer the same issues.



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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Carter Young via wix-users
Sent: 07 November 2017 20:40
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Is there any way around WIN64DUALFOLDERS substitution?

Have you tried testing for the machine bitness first.  I.e something like:

If win.x64 then
    _search for 64 bit java_
If win.x32 then
    _search for 32 bit java_

using the XML conditions listed at:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/redistributables_and_install_checks/block_install_on_os.html


Quoting Lewis Henderson via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>:

> Is there any way to somehow set the above mentioned "mask" argument to 
> 1 for a particular set of searches?  I know why Windows Installer is 
> trying to enforce this rule, but I'm not trying to install 32-bit code 
> in the "Program Files" tree, I'm just trying to find something that's 
> already installed there.  If anyone has a solution for this (other 
> than "install a 32-bit Java" or "install Java outside the 'Program 
> Files' tree", I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks.
>                                                                  
> Lewis Henderson
>                                                                  
> OpenText, Inc.
>
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