Research: 16bits InnoSetup stub fails under Windows Server 2008

[luislavena]

As reported in #94, seems InnoSetup and DevKit SFX both suffer from startup issues due 16bits API perhaps?

Will be great to determine what is the issue and solve it.

[petemounce]

@luislavena Apologies for massive delay. I have just tried out the 1.9.3-p194 rubyinstaller on an EC2 windows-2008-x64-server-core instance in AWS and it worked flawlessly.

Differences since #94

• ruby installer may have changed since 1.9.3-p0 (I think that was what I tried to use at the time)
• win2008r2 core sp1 - I think at the time I was using naked win2008r2 core, not sp1.
• The AMI is different from before - I used ami-939196e7 in eu-west-1 this time whereas last year I used ami-fdbe8389 (which is apparently no longer available to launch from, but here are the release notes - I guess last year October would have made it ... oh, it doesn't have changelog back that far).

Note also I didn't have to do

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:ServerCore-WOW64

to get this far.

Also, I have not installed any windows updates after launching the instance.

I've tried DevKit too (see updated gist) and that worked fine too.

[petemounce]

I've just run dism /online /get-features on said instance and discovered that ServerCore-WOW64 is enabled already - so that's a difference from the AMI last year.

TL;DR

C:\Users\Administrator>dism /online /get-features /format:table

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Features listing for package : Microsoft-Windows-ServerCore-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7601.175
14

----------------------------------------------------------- | --------
Feature Name                                                | State
----------------------------------------------------------- | --------
NetworkLoadBalancingHeadlessServer                          | Disabled
FailoverCluster-Core                                        | Disabled
FailoverCluster-Core-WOW64                                  | Disabled
WindowsServerBackup                                         | Disabled
WindowsServerBackupCommandlet                               | Disabled
MultipathIo                                                 | Disabled
SUACore                                                     | Disabled
SUACore-WOW64                                               | Disabled
DNS-Server-Core-Role                                        | Disabled
DirectoryServices-DomainController-ServerFoundation         | Disabled
DirectoryServices-ADAM-ServerCore                           | Disabled
ActiveDirectory-PowerShell                                  | Disabled
FRS-Infrastructure                                          | Disabled
BitLocker                                                   | Disabled
BitLocker-RemoteAdminTool                                   | Disabled
ClientForNFS-Base                                           | Disabled
ServerForNFS-Base                                           | Disabled
DFSR-Infrastructure-ServerEdition                           | Disabled
DHCPServerCore                                              | Disabled
SNMP-SC                                                     | Disabled
DFSN-Server                                                 | Disabled
TelnetClient                                                | Disabled
IIS-WebServerRole                                           | Disabled
IIS-WebServer                                               | Disabled
IIS-CommonHttpFeatures                                      | Disabled
IIS-StaticContent                                           | Disabled
IIS-DefaultDocument                                         | Disabled
IIS-DirectoryBrowsing                                       | Disabled
IIS-HttpErrors                                              | Disabled
IIS-HttpRedirect                                            | Disabled
IIS-WebDAV                                                  | Disabled
IIS-ApplicationDevelopment                                  | Disabled
IIS-NetFxExtensibility                                      | Disabled
IIS-ASPNET                                                  | Disabled
IIS-ASP                                                     | Disabled
IIS-CGI                                                     | Disabled
IIS-ISAPIExtensions                                         | Disabled
IIS-ISAPIFilter                                             | Disabled
IIS-ServerSideIncludes                                      | Disabled
IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics                                    | Disabled
IIS-HttpLogging                                             | Disabled
IIS-LoggingLibraries                                        | Disabled
IIS-RequestMonitor                                          | Disabled
IIS-HttpTracing                                             | Disabled
IIS-CustomLogging                                           | Disabled
IIS-ODBCLogging                                             | Disabled
IIS-Security                                                | Disabled
IIS-BasicAuthentication                                     | Disabled
IIS-WindowsAuthentication                                   | Disabled
IIS-DigestAuthentication                                    | Disabled
IIS-ClientCertificateMappingAuthentication                  | Disabled
IIS-IISCertificateMappingAuthentication                     | Disabled
IIS-URLAuthorization                                        | Disabled
IIS-RequestFiltering                                        | Disabled
IIS-IPSecurity                                              | Disabled
IIS-Performance                                             | Disabled
IIS-HttpCompressionStatic                                   | Disabled
IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic                                  | Disabled
IIS-WebServerManagementTools                                | Disabled
IIS-ManagementScriptingTools                                | Disabled
IIS-ManagementService                                       | Disabled
IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility                             | Disabled
IIS-Metabase                                                | Disabled
IIS-WMICompatibility                                        | Disabled
IIS-LegacyScripts                                           | Disabled
IIS-FTPServer                                               | Disabled
IIS-FTPSvc                                                  | Disabled
IIS-FTPExtensibility                                        | Disabled
WAS-WindowsActivationService                                | Disabled
WAS-ProcessModel                                            | Disabled
WAS-NetFxEnvironment                                        | Disabled
WAS-ConfigurationAPI                                        | Disabled
IIS-HostableWebCore                                         | Disabled
WINS-SC                                                     | Disabled
Printing-ServerCore-Role                                    | Disabled
Printing-LPDPrintService                                    | Disabled
Printing-ServerCore-Role-WOW64                              | Disabled
ServerCore-EA-IME                                           | Enabled
ServerCore-EA-IME-WOW64                                     | Disabled
QWAVE                                                       | Disabled
NetFx2-ServerCore                                           | Enabled
NetFx2-ServerCore-WOW64                                     | Enabled
NetFx3-ServerCore                                           | Enabled
WCF-HTTP-Activation                                         | Disabled
WCF-NonHTTP-Activation                                      | Disabled
NetFx3-ServerCore-WOW64                                     | Enabled
MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell                                  | Enabled
MicrosoftWindowsPowerShell-WOW64                            | Enabled
ServerManager-PSH-Cmdlets                                   | Disabled
BestPractices-PSH-Cmdlets                                   | Disabled
PeerDist                                                    | Disabled
Microsoft-Hyper-V                                           | Disabled
VmHostAgent                                                 | Disabled
CertificateServices                                         | Disabled
SMBHashGeneration                                           | Disabled
ServerMigration                                             | Disabled
ServerCore-WOW64                                            | Enabled
FSRM-Infrastructure-Core                                    | Disabled
LightweightServer                                           | Disabled
CoreFileServer                                              | Disabled
Microsoft-Windows-Web-Services-for-Management-IIS-Extension | Disabled

The operation completed successfully.

[luislavena]

Awesome @petemounce thanks for the report (sorry about my delay)

Closing this out based on your feedback.