how to run a 32-bit .EXE on Windows 7 x64?
Using a deployment tool we copy down 2 files to our target machines. acme.exe and runacme.cmd. Since the target machines are Windows 7 x64 runacme.cmd has this.
%WINDIR%\SysWOW64\Cmd.exe acme.exe /s /qn
It will not install. And what is odd is you Can run this manually on a machine. If I open up the cmd window and run acme.exe /s /qn it installs fine.
Application is 32-bit
Target OS is Windows 7 x64
What should my runacme.cmd contain to make this work?
Answers (5)
use this in a batch file and it will work for sure and I am 100% sure:
cd %windir%\sysnative
acme.exe /s /qn
Do let me know your result.
Have you tried running it without calling cmd.exe? Just run
acme.exe /s /qn
Your next option would be to use %windir%\system32\cmd.exe
I would also see if it runs with C:\Windows instead of %WINDIR%. Some deployment tools run as a user that does not have these system variables defined.
running it without the cmd.exe was the first thing we tried and it failed.
have you tried the following contents of the cmd file:
pushd %~dp0 acme.exe /s /qn
The problem might be your cmd not 'knowing' its own working directory, and thus not finding acme.exe. The first line of the script should fix that. Also, just a remark, the /qn parameter makes me suspect there's an MSI contained in acme.exe. Have you tried extracting that and running it directly?