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Installer does not allow installation on Windows 11 on ARM
Describe the bug
When I try to install Betaflight Configurator 10.8.0 on an ARM64 Windows 11 laptop it closes with an error message explaining that the installer only supports amd64. Fact is Windows11 ARM notebooks (Windows 10 ARM notbooks cannot though) can emulate amd64.
The portable version of the configurator even works as expected.
To Reproduce
Run winget install Betaflight.Betaflight-Configurator on an ARM64 laptop.
Expected behavior
The installer successfully installs the configurator
Configurator version
10.8.0
Flight controller configuration
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I am willing to test a new installer, because I guess no ARM64 Windows Laptop might be available for you
I didn't know the new arm devices can emulate win64. I will look into the installer to see if we have some way of detect it.
It seems that is a feature that is not provided at this moment, but is in progress. In this thread there is a workaround adding code to the installer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73707415/can-inno-setup-detect-windows11-on-arm64-hardware-which-can-emulate-x64
how would i do it with a raspberry pi os? i tried downloading but that didnt work for me
As the question you have linked shows, you can call GetMachineTypeAttributes WinAPI function on Windows 11 to determine x64 support. On older versions of Windows, use ProcessorArchitecture Inno Setup support function
Something like this should do (but I do not have ARM64 machine to test this on).
[Code]
const
IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64 = $8664;
function GetMachineTypeAttributes(
Machine: Word; var MachineTypeAttributes: Integer): HRESULT;
external '[email protected] stdcall delayload';
<event('InitializeSetup')>
function InitializeSetupCheckArchitecture(): Boolean;
var
MachineTypeAttributes: Integer;
Arch: TSetupProcessorArchitecture;
begin
if IsWindows11OrNewer then
begin
OleCheck(
GetMachineTypeAttributes(IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64, MachineTypeAttributes));
if MachineTypeAttributes <> 0 then
begin
Log('Windows 11 or newer, with x64 support');
Result := True;
end
else
begin
Log('Windows 11 or newer, without x64 support');
Result := False;
end;
end
else
begin
Arch := ProcessorArchitecture;
if Arch = paX64 then
begin
Log('Windows 10 or older, on x64 architecture');
Result := True;
end
else
begin
Log('Windows 10 or older, not on x64 architecture');
Result := False;
end;
end;
if not Result then
begin
MsgBox('This product can be installed on system with x64 support only.',
mbError, MB_OK);
end;
end;
The code completely replaces the ArchitecturesAllowed directive (it assumes it is not set, though setting it to x64 arm64 should do no harm).
The IsWindows11OrNewer comes from https://stackoverflow.com/q/5849917/850848.
