[xsd-users] PATH in xsd installer

[Benjamin Schindler]

Hi Boris

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:41 +0200, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> Benjamin Schindler <bschindler at inf.ethz.ch> writes:
>  
> > > Unfortunately, Windows does not provide good support for having both 
> > > 32-bit and 64-bit libraries in the PATH environment variable (i.e.,
> > > there is no PATH64). So in the .msi installer we only add the bin/
> > > directory to PATH.
> 
> I was too quick to bash Windows -- it turns out you can have directories
> in PATH containing 32-bit and 64-bit DLLs and the dynamic loader will use
> the correct version depending on the application.
> 
> So the solution in case of the XSD .msi installer is to simply add both
> bin/ and bin64/ to PATH. I have built the new installer for you to try:
> 
> http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/tmp/xsd-3.3-1.msi
> 
> Can you let me know if it does the right thing in your situation?

it does work here

Cheers
Benjamin

>  
> Boris