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Allow creating MSI installers for Windows ARM64

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/dennisameling/add-windows-arm-msi-config into master

Adds configuration to allow building an MSI installer for Windows ARM64. MSI can be created by running vcbuild.bat release msi arm64

IMPORTANT: when building an MSI for ARM64, WIX 3.14 or higher is required, as that version includes support for ARM64.

I created a test release with a ZIP and MSI for Windows ARM64: https://github.com/dennisameling/node/releases/tag/15-arm64win

I only got Failed to generate license.rtf because the generated node.exe file is an ARM64 exe which can't be executed on a x64 host. When I skipped that part, the build was packaged successfully. We could try to find a solution for this either in this PR or in another PR.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25998 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/32582

Checklist
  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes --> did vcbuild test arm64 but didn't work on host x64 machine as it's not capable of running arm64 exe files.
  • tests and/or benchmarks are included
  • documentation is changed or added
  • commit message follows commit guidelines

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