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Jeff McClintock
Jeff McClintock

Reputation: 1261

WiX Burn Bootstrapper - Can't detect registry key

I'm installing a product that requires the Visual C++ redistributables (x64). First my bootstrapper attempts to detect if vcredist (x64) is already installed...

<util:RegistrySearch Root="HKLM" Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\VC\Runtimes\x64" Value="Installed" Variable="vcredist"/>

The key is 'virtualized' (I think), in regedit it appears under... 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\VC\Runtimes\x64

Notice I don't put the 'Wow6432Node' bit in my search because I think that's meant to be hidden by the OS?. This search ALWAYS fails....

[131C:0BC0][2013-03-18T12:42:17]: Registry key not found. Key = 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\VC\Runtimes\x64'

I tried adding Win64="yes" to my registry search, no success. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2571

Answers (1)

Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching

Reputation: 35866

I think you want your search to look like this:

<util:RegistrySearch Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\VC\Runtimes\x64"
                     Value="Installed" Variable="vcredist"/>

You're current code is searching for a key named HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE under HKLM. I doubt that exists. ;)

Upvotes: 5

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