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I expected this to be nightmarish because WiX 3 doesn't know about the Windows on Arm platform at all. Fortunately, it turns out that it doesn't have to: testing on a borrowed machine I find that Windows on Arm's msiexec.exe is quite happy to take MSIs whose platform field in the _SummaryInformation table says "Intel". In fact, that seemed to be _all_ that my test machine would accept: I tried taking the MSI apart with msidump, putting some other value in there (e.g. "Arm64" or "Arm") and rebuilding it with msibuild, and all I got was messages from msiexec saying "This installation package is not supported by this processor type." So in fact I just give WiX the same -arch x86 option that I give it for the real 32-bit x86 Windows installer, but then I point it at the Arm binaries, and that seems to produce a viable MSI. There is the unfortunate effect that msiexec forcibly sets the default install location to 'Program Files (x86)' no matter how I strive to make it set it any other way, but that's only cosmetic: the programs _run_ just fine no matter which Program Files directory they're installed into (and I know this won't be the first piece of software that installs itself into the wrong one). Perhaps some day we can find a way to do that part better. On general principles of caution (and of not really wanting to force Arm machines to emulate x86 code at all), the Arm versions of the installers have the new DllOk=no flag, so they're pure MSI with no embedded DLLs.
PuTTY README
============
This is the README file for the PuTTY installer distribution. If
you're reading this, you've probably just run our installer and
installed PuTTY on your system.
What should I do next?
----------------------
If you want to use PuTTY to connect to other computers, or use PSFTP
to transfer files, you should just be able to run them from the
Start menu.
If you want to use the command-line-only file transfer utility PSCP,
you will probably want to put the PuTTY installation directory on
your PATH. On Windows 7 and similar versions, you can do this at
Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system
settings > Environment Variables.
Some versions of Windows will refuse to run HTML Help files (.CHM)
if they are installed on a network drive. If you have installed
PuTTY on a network drive, you might want to check that the help file
works properly. If not, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054
for information on how to solve this problem.
What do I do if it doesn't work?
--------------------------------
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Here you will find our list of known bugs and pending feature
requests. If your problem is not listed in there, or in the FAQ, or
in the manuals, read the Feedback page to find out how to report
bugs to us. PLEASE read the Feedback page carefully: it is there to
save you time as well as us. Do not send us one-line bug reports
telling us `it doesn't work'.