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
