Create msi with Wix Bootstrapper

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I have a working wix bootstrapper, chaining two wix msi installers, and it works fine. The output file of the bootstrapper is an exe file, I am interested in changing the output file to be an MSI file, is it possible with bootstrapper? If so, how do i achieve this?

Thanks.

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No, it's not possible. Bootstrappers have to be executables, not MSI packages. If you want to write your own bootstrapper from scratch, you could use EmbeddedChainer to create an .msi with a chainer inside it, on Windows Installer 4.5 and later.