Compiling a WiX installer on a build machine using MSBuild
The WiX Toolset places its compiler and linker in C:\Program Files (x86)\WiX Toolset v3.9\bin. This is fine when compiling on your own machine but becomes a concern when you'd like to share your project with others or have it compile on a build server. WiX will have to be installed on each computer that builds the project.
Alternatively, we can store the WiX tools in source control, and then whoever needs to build a setup project can get everything they need by cloning the repository. This will also help us keep a handle on which version of WiX we're compiling against on a project-by-project basis.
In this recipe, we'll store the WiX binaries in a fictitious source control directory on the ...
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