Can you force Inno Setup to override or ignore ArchitecturesAllowed with a command line param?

Question

We are using ArchitecturesAllowed and it is working fine at present.

Is it possible to use something like a command line parameter to instruct Inno to "ignore ArchitecturesAllowed, just install it anyway"?

I don't see anything like this in https://jrsoftware.org/ishelp/index.php?topic=setupcmdline. I know its possible to create custom command line params but I don't see how programmatically that would allow for this.

This might be useful for us in some strange corner cases where our installer does not support a particular architecture but we need to work around a customer problem. (Specifically I'm thinking of Windows 11 running in a VM on a Mac, but there could be other cases.)

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• I know there are approaches like in Can Inno Setup detect Windows11 on ARM64 hardware which can emulate x64? which allow circumventing ArchitecturesAllowed entirely, but that seems like an alternative approach.

• Also I can see that the error message can be customized; but that doesn't change the actual setup behavior: Show a custom message for unsupported architectures

Answer 1

No.

Using the approach you know (Can Inno Setup detect Windows11 on ARM64 hardware which can emulate x64?) combined with a custom command line switch is the only way.