wcautil.h is missing

[vladimir-andreevich]

Version

v14.19.3

Platform

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19044.0 x64

Subsystem

No response

What steps will reproduce the bug?

1. Open tools/msvs/msi/nodemsi.sln
2. Build a WiX solution using a local Windows debugger for the target x64 or x86.

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

No response

What is the expected behavior?

Visual Studio IDE makes WiX Node.JS installers for Windows.

What do you see instead?

Error code C1083 in custom_actions.cc, line 5: Cannot include file wcautil.h: No such file or directory.

Additional information

WiX toolset v3.11

[StefanStojanovic]

The Node.js installer is built from vcbuild.bat with this command https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/vcbuild.bat#L535. Since you are trying to build it from Visual Studio IDE, MSBuild is not getting all of the required properties. I suggest you try building the MSI installer by running vcbuild.bat release x64 msi

[vladimir-andreevich]

I think this note shall be added to BUILDING.md so other developers can immediately see how to build Windows MSI installers.