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I had previously left the platform field (in line 7 of the installer database's SummaryInformation table) set at "x86" instead of any value you might expect such as "Arm" or "Arm64", because I found that an MSI file with either of the latter values was rejected by WoA's msiexec as invalid. It turns out this is because I _also_ needed to upgrade the installer database schema version to a higher value than I even knew existed: apparently the problem is that those platform fields aren't present in the older schema. A test confirms that this works. Unfortunately, WiX 3 doesn't actually know _how_ to write MSIs with those platform values. But that's OK, because diffing the x86 and x64 MSIs against each other suggested that there were basically no other changes in the database tables - so I can just generate the installer as if for x64, and then rewrite that one field after installer construction using GNOME msitools to take apart the binary file structure and put it back together. (Those are the same tools I'm using as part of my system for running WiX on Linux in the first place.) This commit introduces a script to do that post-hoc bodging, and calls it from Buildscr. I've also changed over the choice of Program Files folder for the Arm installers so that it's ProgramFiles64Folder instead of ProgramFilesFolder - so now the Windows on Arm installer doesn't incongruously default to installing in C:\Program Files (x86)!
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'.