I assume you are using WixStdBA and not your own BA? If so, looking at the Wix4
source the lang command line parsing is done from within WixStdBA and not the
engine. Sadly, it's not creating a variable (thought it would seem to be a
valid feature request).
Inside of WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.cpp, in method ProcessCommandLine,
simply adding
hr = m_pEngine->SetVariableString("lang",
*psczLanguage);
BalExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to set lang variable.");
After the parsing of the lang parameter "should" do it.
It would be something I could see being logged as a feature on
http://wixtoolset.org/issues/. In the meantime, you could always do your own
compile.
-----Original Message-----
From: runel_kr...@juno.com [mailto:runel_kr...@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:30 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] burn bootstrapper access -lang as a property or variab
le
I'm afraid the provided link hasn't helped me solve my problem. I am trying to
get the bootstrapper and the MSI to both be translated into the same language.
When the user enters the -lang 1046 as a command line parameter for the
bootstrapper, the bootstrapper is correctly switching to the localized
1046\thm.wxl and 1046\license.rtf. But I can't seem to figure out how to get
access to the selected language so that I can perform the correct transform on
the MSI. It would be nice if I could just access the -lang value directly, but
I was not able to find a way to do this. (I have tested both the bootstrapper
localization and the MSI transforms. Both localizations work when called
explicitly so I know it is just a matter of finding the right way to select the
transform.) After failing to get access to the -lang argument, I tried was to
create all my localized strings in the bootstrapper and pass them into the MSI
as properties.<MsiPackage Id="msi_English" SourceFile="../Installer/bin/$
(var.Configuration)/en-us/app.msi" DisplayInternalUI="yes"/> <MsiProperty
Name="String1" Value="!(loc.String1)"/> </MsiPackage> This failed because it
appears the !(loc.String1) in the MsiProperty doesn't use the localized string,
it uses the default string. I also tried using a localized string as the
install condition, but had the same problem. The default string is used, not
the localized one. <MsiPackage Id="msi_English"
SourceFile="../Installer/bin/$(var.Configuration)/en-us/app.msi"
DisplayInternalUI="yes" InstallCondition="(NOT !(loc.Language) =
"1046")"/> <MsiPackage Id="msi_Portuguese"
SourceFile="../Installer/bin/$(var.Configuration)/en-us/app.msi"
DisplayInternalUI="yes" InstallCondition="(!(loc.Language) =
"1046")"> <Payload Id="pt_mst"
SourceFile="../Installer/bin/$(var.Configuration)/en-us/pt-br.mst"/>
<MsiProperty Name="TRANSFORMS" Value="pt-br.mst"/> </MsiPackage> Thanks again.
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