

ĭigging further to see which Java versions are affected and why this is happening, I tried this below code in a number of Java version / vendor combination, aftere each of the 'java' executbale made compatible with Windows 7. Obviously, if you swap the 32 and 64 bit ones and manually invoke the installer (Windows\Installer.exe), the installation succeeds. If you 'unzip' the installer, you will see 3 dlls in the Windows\resource folder of the extraction as:Įvidently, iawin64.dll is the desired one, while the wrong one being picked up. While my node installer, Java, and the OS all are 64 bit, attempt to load a 32 bit dll is indeed the inflection point. Loading windoze dll: C:\foo\Windows\resource\iawin32.dllįlexeraax2$aaa: Windows DLL failed to loadĪt .(Unknown Source)Īt .(Unknown Source)Īt .(Unknown Source)Īt 0(Native Method)Īt (Unknown Source)Īt (Unknown Source)Īt .invoke(Unknown Source)Īt .launch(Unknown Source)Īt .main(Unknown Source) I was debugging the same issue, and have these observations and inference:Įrror message with the culprit dll exposed:
