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

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.

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 

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