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How are installation
files and paths stored?
Can you create
releases?
Compiling does what?
Can you switch from
working on one file
type to the other?
Target Platforms: 32-bit and 64-bit
Windows Installer Editor Reference
If you work in a .WSI or .WSM
(Wise project)
Externally. The project contains paths to
the installation files. During compile,
they are compiled into the resulting .MSI
or .EXE.
Yes. Use the Releases page and other
Release Definition pages.
Reads the project information and
compiles a database file (.MSI or .MSM),
which contains installation files.
You can switch from a project file to a
database file by compiling the project,
opening the resulting database file, and
continuing development in the database
file. However, an .MSI created by
compiling a .WSI does not contain file
paths; it contains only the files
themselves. Therefore, any files added
prior to the switch will not be refreshed
from disk because they have no file path.
Only those files you add after the switch
contain file paths and are refreshed from
disk.
Windows Installer Editor supports the following types of installation packages:
32-bit installations that contain only 32-bit components
64-bit installations that contain only 64-bit components
64-bit installations that contain some 32-bit components
Windows Installer Editor supports both x64 (for AMD64 and Intel EM64T processors) and
64-bit Itanium platforms.
An Itanium installation will not run on an x64 platform, and vice versa.
A 64-bit installation will not run on a 32-bit platform.
A 32-bit installation will run on any 32-bit or 64-bit platform.
Developing 64-bit Installations on a 32-bit Computer
You can develop a 64-bit installation on a 32-bit computer, with these limitations:
On the Registry page, you cannot browse the 64-bit registry in the upper list boxes.
However, you can add 64-bit registry keys in the lower list boxes, and you can
import .REG files that contain 64-bit keys.
Working With Wise Installation Files
If you work in an .MSI or .MSM
(Windows Installer database)
Inside the database file. Files are
refreshed from disk unless Don't update
or recompress files when saving is
marked on the Product Details page.
No. Because you are already working in
the final output file, options for multiple
output files are unavailable, which includes
all Release Definition pages.
Refreshes files from disk unless Don't
update or recompress files when
saving is marked on the Product Details
page.
Use MSI to WSI Conversion to convert an
.MSI to a .WSI. It extracts installation files
from an .MSI, saves them to disk at
locations you specify, and creates a .WSI
that points to those files.
See
MSI to WSI Conversion
on page 399.
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