They may not be "supported" but I've done it in InstallShield with and without a Setup.EXE.
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/ The setup.exe with lanuage selection and command line passing to specify the embedded language transform to use is the officially supported technique. The only thing that really sucks IMO is that you better not modify the UI from one build to another if you are doing Minor Upgrades as you can get into some nasty cached transform problem areas. Major Upgrades work fine though. ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:20 AM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Multi-language installer The Windows Installer behavior has not changed. :( On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Dave Mateer <dave_mat...@ntm.org> wrote: > Having already done some research, it appears that single-MSI > multi-language installers are not supported by Windows Installer, and thus, > not by WiX. However, the latest information I could find that actually > looked definitive was from 2007, and I'm wondering if there has been any > progress since that time, or if perhaps there is a solution for my very > simple case. > > 99.9% of the payload in my installer is the same between the various > languages. In fact, it is being called silently from a bootstrapper so I > don't even care about UI transformation. The ONLY thing that needs to be > translated is the product name as it appears in "Add/Remove Programs" and > the shortcut (including the folder), i.e.: > > <Product Name="!(loc.ProductName)"/> > <Package Description="!(loc.ProductName)"/> > <Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder"> > <Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" > Name="!(loc.ProductName)"/> > </Directory> > <DirectoryRef Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder"> > <Component> > <Shortcut Name="!(loc.ProductName)"> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > Is there any way to "officially" do this without duplicating the content? > I have four languages to support, and the content is over 400 MB, so it > would be a real waste to create four separate installers. The language of > the application itself can be switched at runtime (using localization > resource files), so we really want to create one DVD with our single > installer. > > The most helpful workarounds I found (from 2007) are: > > http://jpassing.com/2007/06/14/authoring-multi-language-msi-packages/ > http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/tutorial/transforms/morphing-installers > > Is this still the state of things? Would those transforms even work with > non-UI transforms? Any better ideas? > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
