jpackage: Support building native Windows MSIs

[Alexey Semenyuk]

Hi Armin,

Your ARM64 MSI contribution/enhancement for the jpackage will be much 
appreciated.

- Alexey

On 6/30/2025 10:09 AM, Armin Schrenk wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> does jpackage support building native ARM64 MSI packages? Building an 
> jpackage MSI on Windows ARM64, the resulting package contains x64 DLLs.
>
> I looked further into the JDK code and apparently, the wix Command 
> builder (WixPipeline.java) only supports x86 or x64  (see 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/a84946dde4283fd423ef00ce3176bbe1985d7046/src/jdk.jpackage/windows/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/WixPipeline.java#L211).
> According to the wix docs, aarch64 is supported since version 4.0: 
> https://docs.firegiant.com/wix/tools/wixexe/#build
>
> I already created a patched JDK locally, but maybe this can be a 
> contribution/enhancement for the JDK in general.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Armin Schrenk
>