[wix-users] BurnBootstrapper is creating entries in WOW6432

Rob Mensching rob at firegiant.com
Tue Jan 23 20:56:41 PST 2018


IIRC, there is a feature request out to provide x64 Burn. No one has been interested enough to implement it yet.

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Srinivas via wix-users
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 3:47 PM
To: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
Cc: Srinivas <srinivasmsis at gmail.com>; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] BurnBootstrapper is creating entries in WOW6432

All our installers are strictly 64Bit, we dont support 32 bit installers and hence i wanted Burn also to be 64 bit and create all its registry entries in 64bit only


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
wrote:

> Burn is a 32 bit process. There is no need to have burn be 64 bit, and 
> it would lead to obtuse errors if someone downloaded your 64 bit 
> installer and tried running it on a 32 bit machine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On 
> Behalf Of Srinivas via wix-users
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 4:35 AM
> To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Cc: Srinivas <srinivasmsis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] BurnBootstrapper is creating entries in WOW6432
>
> Hi,
>
> When i installed the exe which was developed using Burn, all the items 
> in the chain are getting installed as 64 bit, creating registry 
> entries in 64 Bit
>
> But the Burn EXE entry is getting created as 32 Bit in WOW6432Node
>
> How do i create that entry in 64 Bit Registry instead of WOW6432Node
>
>
> Thanks
> Srini
>
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