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.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Product
Id="*"
Name="PracticeWix"
Language="1033"
Version="1.0.0.0"
Manufacturer="Awesome Company"
UpgradeCode="B9B82C37-34EC-4F50-9D0E-0DF8F06F1F64">
<Package Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine...