A fresh install opens on a destination page (Program Files by default;
Change... browses, with Up and New folder), then a Ready page that shows
the folder before anything is written. An upgrade goes straight to the
Ready page with the installed copy's folder and can't move it; opening the
MSI again offers Repair or Remove. Cancel, finish, files-in-use and error
dialogs are authored too. Silent installs (/qn) show none of it.
The dialogs (installer-ui.wxs) are original, built from Windows Installer's
own controls and events, not the WixUI library, whose MS-RL licence is not
on the allowed list. package.ps1 builds both .wxs files.
Release builds add an arm64 MSI and portable zip, cross-compiled on the x64
runner (signing and WiX as for x64). package.ps1 checks each binary's PE
header before packaging: Machine must match -Arch, the app must be a GUI
program and the CLI a console program. It skips the CLI smoke run when an
ARM64 build can't run on the host. A new Windows ARM64 workflow packages the
ARM64 MSI, installs it on a Windows 11 ARM64 runner, checks both installed
exes are ARM64, runs the CLI, and uninstalls. Ported from printcraft#66.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Marco Arnulfo