<para>Currently WinMerge installer works natively only for 32-bit Windows.
There is no separate version of WinMerge for 64-bit Windows
(WinXP/2003/Vista). 64-bit Windows versions can run the installer and
- WinMerge as 32-bit application. For the Shell Integration there is 64-bit
- version of included in the installer.</para>
+ WinMerge as 32-bit application. For the Shell Integration there is the
+ 64-bit version of extension included in the installer.</para>
</note>
<sect2>
</sect2>
<sect2>
- <title>7-Zip and Archive Support</title>
+ <title><indexterm>
+ <primary>Installing Archive Support</primary>
+ </indexterm>7-Zip and Archive Support</title>
<para>WinMerge uses <ulink url="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip</ulink> for
archive support, but WinMerge installer does not install 7-Zip or archive
archive support. 7-Zip installer can be downloaded from <ulink
url="http://www.7-zip.org/">7-Zip.org</ulink>.</para>
+ <important>
+ <para>There are 7-Zip MSI installers that do not install all the
+ files WinMerge needs (namely <filename>7zip_pad.xml</filename> in 7-Zip
+ program folder). If there are problems with archive support enabling,
+ try running the EXE version of the 7-Zip installer.</para>
+ </important>
+
<para>To install archive support, download and install 7-Zip plugin
(Merge7zInstaller, see below) from <ulink
url="http://www.winmerge.org/">WinMerge.org</ulink>.</para>