How to generate WiX XML from a .reg file?

Question

Is there a tool to generate WiX XML given a .reg file?

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In 2.0, you were supposed to be able to run tallow to generate registry XML:

Answer 1

I've tried tallow.exe (version 2.0.5805) from the latest stable Wix 2 release and it worked fine for me.

tallow -reg my.reg

This will generate the markup using Wix 2 "Registry" tag that was deprecated in Wix 3. Then you have to copy the output into a wix source file and execute WixCop utility to convert Wix 2 markup to Wix 3:

wixcop my.wxs -f