You get German since that is the first one in your list of Cultures. MSI has never officially supported the scenario you describe directly. You are perfectly free to create per-language transforms and use an .EXE file to install your MSI with those transforms (the supported way). There are some who have had success with embedding those same transforms based on a particular naming convention and having them auto-selected by the OS (not supported, but I'm told it works). There may or may not be issues with generating working MSP files if you use those transforms (you may have to mess with the transform applicability rules of the patch-supplied transforms depending on what the original language transforms did).
You may be able to use the instance transform related tags in WiX, but I have never tried that so I don't know what gotchas you may find that way. Otherwise you may be able to link each language separately into .wixout files, generate your transforms from those, and bind the "baseline" wixout into the MSI you subsequently apply each MST to. -----Original Message----- From: Markus KARG [mailto:markus.k...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:06 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer Hello Everybody, I am new to both, MSI technology in general and the WiX product in particular, but I have some experience with some old InstallShield products (pre-MSI-age). InstallShield allowed me to simply add translated strings for lots of languages, so one single setup.exe contained the installer in multi languages. This was very smart since I was able to send the same setup.exe to any country of the world. Now I want to write an installer with WiX that is also multi language (I don't want to have lots of setup.msi files, but only a single one). I wrote several .wxl files and linked them together using a line like this one: light.exe -cultures:de,neutral;fr,neutral;en,neutral;neutral -loc de.wxl -loc fr.wxl -loc en.wxl -loc neutral.wxl Setup.wixobj (While actually told nowhere, it seems that neutral.wxl must contain ' .culture="". ' [i. e. empty string] to indicate that it is the neutral culture. I found out that by trial and error when adding the neutral fallback to each culture). What I expect to get from light.exe is one single .msi file containing all four language packs: German, French, English and Neutral. Light provides a single .msi so "from the outside" it seems to work. My target is that the Windows Installer at install time picks German, French or English strings automatically, depending on the user's current "Region and Language Settings" or instead picks neutral strings when the current user's local setting is neither German, French nor English (for example, "Polish" / "Poland"). While light v3 accepts the above line and does not complain in any way (not even ICE warnings), the Windows Installer picks Germany *always* when running the resulting .msi file on my laptop -- despite the current setting of "Polish" / "Poland" in the "Region and Language Settings" control panel. :-( Can anybody tell me what my fault is? Thanks Markus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
