Deuxchevaux
11th June 2009 22:51 UTC

Driver install with DPInst: difference between amd64 and ia64?
  Hi all,

I'm developing a program for which I need to install an USB Driver. I use DPInst using ExecWait to install the driver. The manufacturer provides a package with 3 driver types: x86, amd64 and ia64. DPInst also comes in these flavors as 3 seperate executables (from the Windows DDK, Driver Development Kit).

What is the difference between amd64 and ia64 and how can I distuinguish these versions from NSIS?

I saw the x64.nsh in the NSIS dir, but I do not see how I can use the functions to get the difference between amd64 and ia64.

Thanks for any help,

Rogier

Animaether
11th June 2009 23:54 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....highlight=ia64

Unless you've been asked to support Itaniums, though, I'd say ignore ia64. amd64 is what pretty much everybody uses now - Intel, I'm guessing, calls it something other than 'amd64' ('x86-64', I guess), but the architecture is the same. Itanium is a completely different - and near-dead - beast pretty much only used in some server settings, still.

Zinthose
12th June 2009 00:30 UTC

You need to use a windows api call to get the information...

OutFile "NSIS Test.exe"

>ShowInstDetails show


Section-Main

    System::Alloc 32

    Pop$0

    System::Call "Kernel32::GetNativeSystemInfo(i) v (r0)"

   System::Call "*$0(&i2 .r1)"

   System::Free $0

    

    StrCmp$1 9 0 +2

        DetailPrint PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64

        

    StrCmp$1 6 0 +2

        DetailPrint PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_IA64   

             

    StrCmp$1 0 0 +2

        DetailPrint PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_INTEL

        

    StrCmp$1 0xffff 0 +2

        DetailPrint PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_UNKNOWN

SectionEnd 

>

Deuxchevaux
12th June 2009 10:10 UTC

Hi guys,

thanx for the help. Our product is geared towards the consumer market, so Itanium will be a very, very rare occasion.

I've now built in x64 detection using x64.nsh and call the appropiate DPInst version from that.

I just didn't know what ia64 exactly meant.

Thanks!

Rogier