Building an installer without Visual Studio
Now that you've been shown Candle and Light, it may help to see a complete example of compiling and linking a WiX project to get an MSI. First off, create a new directory for your project and call it PracticeWix. Next, add a text file to it called InstallMe.txt. This will give us something to install. Then, create a file with the .wxs extension and call it PracticeWix.wxs, as shown in the following screenshot:
Open PracticeWix.wxs with a text editor such as Notepad and add the following markup. It will install the text file to a directory called PracticeWix. We'll add one of the built-in WiX dialogs too. ...
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