7-Zip

[ghost]

I have noticed the 7zip package is installing the 32-bit version regardless of
operating system.

This is a problem; I have found that installing the 32-bit version on 64-bit
Windows 7 breaks the context menu entries.

[ferventcoder]

I think at the time the x64 version was not considered stable. I'm guessing that is not true anymore.

[ghost]

@ferventcoder I tried it on a virtual machine and it is working correctly. For
some reason on my 64-bit Windows 7 running chocolatey.exe launches a 32-bit
powershell.exe.

[ferventcoder]

@svnpenn if you are in PS, before you install - type [System.IntPtr]::Size - what is the result?

[ghost]

@ferventcoder it returns 8 as expected

PS > [System.IntPtr]::Size
8

Again, the problem is that even though I am using Windows 7 64-bit, and running

choco install 7zip 

from a 64-bit PowerShell window, choco.exe is spawning a 32-bit PowerShell
process which breaks the bit detection after that. A clean Windows virtual
machine is not having this problem, but I would like to avoid reinstalling
Windows if possible.

[ferventcoder]

Are you familiar with filesystem redirection? I don't know why, but it seems like something is being subjected to this.

One then you can try is where powershell / or from powershell console &where.exe powershell - see where that is pointing to, I'm guessing it may point to c:\windows\SysWOW64\yadayada\powershell.exe

[ghost]

I found the answer! It appears I deleted the Enable64Bit registry value at
some point. This caused “Any CPU” programs such as Chocolatey to be run as
32-bit. To fix that, I used this command

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727> Ldr64 set64

Any CPU 32-bit mode on 64 bit machine

[ferventcoder]

@svnpenn TIL. Interesting.

[ferventcoder]

I think this could be documented somewhere... hmm

[ghost]

I feel the registry key should be checked when installing Chocolatey

[ferventcoder]

This should ultimately become a troubleshooting thing - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/ChocolateyFAQs#im-seeing-chocolatey--application--tool-using-32-bit-to-run-instead-of-x64-what-is-going-on

Because of the stackoverflow notes, I don't think chocolatey should change it, but it should report it during install if it is set incorrectly.

[ferventcoder]

Added chocolatey-archive/chocolatey#593 to address this.

[ghost]

Thanks so much!