[wpkg-users] FW: MSIs, install paths and different architectures

[Andrew Rae]

On 05/12/2011 20:58, "Andrew Rae" <A.M.Rae at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:


>Hi,
>
>On 05/12/2011 17:29, "Steve Kersley" <steve.kersley at keble.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>...
>>
>>I have extracted the MSI from the InstallShield installation source, and
>>it does support the INSTALLDIR property via the msiexec command line.
>>However, Windows is being too clever.  It will let me install to c:\foo,
>>but if I tell it to install to c:\Program Files\foo, it silently modifies
>>that so that it installs to c:\Program Files (x86)\foo instead.
>>
>>Is there any way to forcibly install a 32-bit app into c:\Program Files
>>on an x64 machine?
>
>If you really want to force it to that path, have you tried
>"%systemdrive%\Program Files" or the full manual path i.e. "c:\Program
>Files" instead of "%programfiles%" - or is that not an option?
>When the application is run, however, the whole "System32" <--> "SysWOW64"
>folder & similar for registry entries may be a problem, or it may notŠ if
>it's just the install path that¹s the issue.
>
>
>It may not be that easy. Although, I could be wrong either way...
>Andrew

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