Why my web project with added x86_x64 Tridion's dlls does not work properly on my local 32bit machine?

Question

Scenario:

• I have 32 bit dev-machine and 64 bit server
• The project's target is AnyCPU
• My local project works perfectly with x86 dlls from Tridion. But this requires to enable 32bit support in my AppPool.

I just want to minimize the configuration stage and the option 32bit support to stay disabled.

• For this reason I deleted Tridion's dlls(x86) from my /bin and added new Tridion's dlls(x86_x64).

And then I run my project locally I received the error: Could not load file or assembly 'Tridion.ContentDelivery.AmbientData' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

When, or if, this issue is fixed then I will try to copy the project on my 64bit server and and try with AppPool with disabled 32bit support.

If I change back the the x86 dlls the project works fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This isn't an 'answer', but thought it would be a good place to share this link which contains a bit of information about the 32/64 3rd party libraries:

http://www.tridiondeveloper.com/tridion-content-delivery-deployment-errors-unable-to-load-dll-xmogrt-and-system-badimageformatexception

Answer 2

That's the way it is. Some of Tridion's x64 DLLs run only on 64 bit servers/app pools. If the only difference in your webapps is the Tridion DLLs, then I think that should be manageable, no?

Unfortunately, I don't think there's much you can do about it (or Tridion) since some of those DLLs are unmanaged code (and from a 3rd party too).