wix-devs mailing list has more history regarding building the toolset.
src\tools needs to be built once elevated before you build the toolset. You
don't need to use OFFICIAL_WIX_BUILD if you will run the build on the same box
as you built it.
> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:03:54 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [WiX-users] Building trunk and assembly signing
>
> I want to debug the problem I'm having with ExePackage/@DetectCondition so
> I cloned the current git trunk and attempted to run MSBuild on it. I'm new
> to assembly signing but I think I have my head around the principles from
> reading a bunch of blogs about it, including the need to use the 64 bit
> sn.exe on my Vista-64 system.
>
> I run MSBuild from the root of the clone and it fails to run utilities that
> it builds along the way (like GenerateWixInclude.exe and MakeSfxCA.exe)
> because they've only been delay-signed. Based on an earlier mailing list
> entry, I tried pointing envvar OFFICIAL_WIX_BUILD at a temporary
> public/private key pair but then the project wants a full suite of
> VS2005/VS2008/VS2010/VS2012 compilers installed, and I only have VS2008 and
> VS2010.
>
> Is there some way to build something I can use to debug with? What's the
> magic to get the build to run to completion? Is there some way to specify a
> temporary key pair to get something I can debug with?
>
> My objective is to step through condition.cpp to see what it's doing with
> the variable passed from ComponentSearch to ExePackage.
>
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