MSI targets multiple architectures

[rajeshaz09]

My product has 10 files.

9 files are common for both x86 and x64. 10th file is different. I want single MSI which targets x86/x64.

I created two features. One is x64 another is x86. For each common file, i created one component and associated to both x86, x64. 10th file, i spitted into 2 components and associated to respective features x86, x64.

For feature x86... i set condition VersionNT64=false
for feature x64... i set condition VersionNT64=true.

But my MSI is installing both features on XP 32 bit machine.
What is wrong in this method? or
is there any solution to create MSI in this scenario?

[Christopher_Pai]

Officially, MSI doesn't support this. Unofficially there are tricks to be tried with various limitations associated.

http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/01/even-developers-are-concerned-about.html

BTW note the conditions being used in the WiX example. The same applies to InstallShield MSI's.

[rajeshaz09]

Instead of creating another feature, i attached condition to components. 🙂