Hi Mike, Thanks for your reply! Good to hear that wix3.5 will soon have a bootstrapper. As for now, do I need to write a console application which reads OS display language and then passes it to msiexec? I looked at bootstrapper in MSBuild with examples like below. However, it is not clear to me how things work for me (as this bootstrapper installs prerequisites, plus culture is hard coded, while my case wants language parameter be passed to the only msi at install-time).
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"; ToolsVersion="3.5"> <ItemGroup> <BootstrapperFile Include="Microsoft.Windows.Installer.3.1"> <Visible>TRUE</Visible> <ProductName>Windows Installer 3.1</ProductName> <Install>true</Install> </BootstrapperFile> </ItemGroup> <Target Name="Bootstrapper"> <GenerateBootstrapper ApplicationFile="MMM.exe" ApplicationName="MMM " BootstrapperItems="@(BootstrapperFile)" OutputPath=".\" ComponentsLocation="Relative" Culture="en"/> </Target> </Project> Please let me know if you have any further information or instruction. Thanks for your help! Thanks, Fan -----Original Message----- From: Mike Carlson (DEV DIV) [mailto:mica...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 10:56 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Single msi with multi languages installs according to OS display language You need to use a bootstrapper (an EXE designed for running one or more installation packages) that will pass the appropriate language property to the MSI at install-time. WiX 3.5 will have a bootstrapper called Burn, but it's still under development right now. Thanks, Mike Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Fan Zhang (UPG) [mailto:fanz...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 10:33 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Single msi with multi languages installs according to OS display language Hello, I want to make a single msi with multi languages including en-us, de-de, zh-cn, etc. When the msi is installed, it installs according to OS display language. By following instructions at "9.1 Morphing Installers" at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson9.php#9.1. I can do it manually like below: torch -p -t language "en-us\MMM.msi" "de-de\MMM.msi" -out de-de.mst EmbedTransform "en-us\MMM.msi" de-de.mst msiexec /i "en-us\MMM.msi" TRANSFORMS=":de-de.mst" If I want the msi choose language automatically according to the current OS display language. Do you know how can I achieve it? Thanks, Fan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
