Building MSI Package linked to protobuf with CMake WIX fails

What version of protobuf and what language are you using? Version: 25.1 Language: C++

What operating system (Linux, Windows, ...) and version? Windows 2022 (running GH Actions)

What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g., python version or gcc version) MSVC 2019

What did you do? Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have application that depends on/links to protobuf
2. Build application exe
3. Use CPack WIX (which calls candle.exe) to build MSI package
4. See error

What did you expect to see A working MSI package

What did you see instead? Errors during the MSI build:

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(8) : error CNDL0014 : The Feature/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_libprotobuf-lite', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(10) : error CNDL0014 : The Feature/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_protobuf-export', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(11) : error CNDL0014 : The Feature/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_protobuf-headers', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(20) : error CNDL0014 : The FeatureRef/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_libprotobuf-lite', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(26) : error CNDL0014 : The FeatureRef/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_protobuf-export', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

build\_CPack_Packages\win64\WIX\features.wxs(29) : error CNDL0014 : The FeatureRef/@Id attribute's value, 'CM_C_protobuf-headers', is not a legal identifier.  Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores (_), or periods (.).  Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore.

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Anything else we should know about your project / environment Running GitHub actions. Other CPack targets work as expected.