First I feel your pain I am doing something similar. The way I see it,
WiX installs the application, the bootstrapper is for prerequisites that
may or may not be on your destination PC. Yes you could use NSIS for all
of this but you will get a better application installer using Windows
Installer at the cost of needing a separate bootstrapper (until WiX 3.5
delivers burn).
As far as creating non-English is concerned I am doing this be making
the CAB file external to the install e.g.:
<Media Id="1" Cabinet="Setup.cab" EmbedCab="no" />
Then I build each of the language variants using the light command line
option -cultures e.g. "-cultures:es-es;en-us" for Spanish. What I end up
with is a number of small msi's each with a different name all referring
to the same Setup.cab file.
Then in my bootstrapper I determine the local language and run the
appropriate msi.
As for a localised .Net install in my experience I only ever install the
English version, I believe that the localisation of .Net only applies to
the installation so if you run it silently, as you normally do in a
bootstrapper, this doesn't matter. I could be wrong on this but we ship
a range of languages and have never noticed a problem.
I hope this helps.
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Paula (hotmail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 October 2008 00:18
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to for non english culture?
Thanks Michael.
I understand that.
But then, why did I move away from NSIS? It does exactly what you say.
Best
of all - I don't have to build with wix and then use some other
application
to make a real self contained installer - NSIS is the bootstrapper and
the
installer.
I am trying to have an integrated development system where I am not the
only
"wizard" that knows how to compile the installer. Any of the developers
wanting to build the installer shouldn't have to install a dozen
utilities
and applications just to be able to do it. It seemed to me like the
beauty
of WiX would be that anybody opening a solution in Visual Studio (that's
the
tool we use) and building the application, could as easily build the
Installer.
Anyway, thanks for your ideas.
All the best.
Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Owings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:58 PM
To: Joel Paula (hotmail)
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to for non english culture?
It's also worth noting that it's not awfully hard to write your own --
which has some advantages, in that you can customize it to your liking.
I just wrote one for our own project this morning.
Basically you'll need to produce an executable stub (with no external
dependencies) that knows how to use Find/Load/LockResource to extract an
RCDATA resource from itself, save it as an MSI, and run it. Obviously it
can get much more complicated from there, but those are the basics.
You'll also need something to use
BeginUpdateResource/UpdateResource/EndUpdateResource to embed the MSI(s)
into the resource section of the stub executable. I used python and
py-win32, but you could just as easily use vbscript.
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> After 1 week of struggling with WiX, I am ready to give up. This is my
last
> attempt to save the time I have spent with it.
>
>
>
> My project:
>
> . Install a product that has a VB6 application and a .Net 2.0
application.
>
> . Install all required run times (It Just Works style)
>
> . Works for English (en), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) and Standard
> Portuguese (pt-PT)
>
> - Doesn't install English .Net over a Brazilian operating system,
etc.
>
>
>
> What I found out:
>
> . The Visual Studio bootstraper doesn't deploy non-english files and
there
> is no way to add packages for other languages/MS doesn't provide them
>
> . There is not bootstraper in WiX, so we are advised to use something
like
> NSIS (which is what I was running away from)
>
>
>
>
>
> Does anybody have any experience with developing installers for
multiple
> cultures?
>
> Any advices? Website links?
>
> Should I head back to NSIS?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Joel Paula
>
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