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The CE 6.0 development tools are designed/tested on 32-bit Windows (Windows XP, Windows Vista) – I’ve been using the CE 6.0 development tools on 32-bit Windows 7 for some time without any issues.
I recently paved my development PC (quad-core, x64, 8GB RAM, 2TB H/D) and decided to install 64-bit Windows 7. The installation process for all of the development tools (VS 2005, CE 6.0, VS 2008, VS 2010 CTP) seemed to go smoothly, but…
Last week I create a new OSDesign for a CE 6.0 operating system configuration, the wizards all worked well and I ended up with a new OSDesign in the CE 6.0 tools. The operating system image didn’t build though – I got an error that stated “Tools Install Dir in registry is missing.”
I checked with the CE 6.0 tools team – The CE 6.0 tools are not supported on 64-bit Windows.
There are two solutions to this problem, one immediate (but perhaps not ideal), and one longer term – first the immediate solution.
- Install the CE 6.0 tools on a 32-bit Windows operating system (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 32-bit)
- Install the CE 6.0 tools in a Virtual PC image, this would allow a Virtual PC/CE 6.0 tools environment to run on a 64-bit Windows image.
We are working on a longer term solution to the problem that would allow you to work with CE 6.0 operating system images on 64-bit systems.
- Mike
Comments
Anonymous
June 22, 2009
good catch... people are complaining about this (including the exact vista64b diagnostics) since 6/18/08, so they are celebrating a year :) http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32470186/pbxmlutils-error-message.aspx Hopefully you will solve this one quick, since describing your first solution as "perhaps not ideal" is an understatement...Anonymous
June 26, 2009
Although I have not encountered this problem in my development work up to now,I am still looking forward to seeing this issue to be resolved as soon as plssible!Anonymous
July 04, 2009
2 more weeks passed... I wonder how long would I need to keep the XP development environment concurrent with my Vista one, due to this bug. Probably a big problem at the CE 6.0 tools team if it takes them so much time to fix. And Isaac - I too thought I haven't encountered this bug, since everything seems to compile, until after 2 days of debugging I found out my wlan driver wasn't included in the build due to this 'bug'. Poor tools team... Maybe they hint for a salary raise for solving this issue?