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Am I required to install Visual Studio 2008 in order to build a bootstrapper for my msi installer?
I don’t have VS2008 installed on my build server, and I’d rather not install it just to generate this one bootstrapper, but it appears that the required bootstrapper files (setup.bin, the Microsoft SDKs folder, etc) are included in the VS setup.
I just ended up copying the files from my dev box to the build server. That worked fine.
Installing the Windows SDK didn’t help, as the bootstrapper isn’t part of the SDK even though that’s where the files are located.