I am using WiX v3 and have a pretty simple installer that has been localized for 4 different languages (en, de, jp, fr) with a bootstrapper for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Windows Installer 3.1, Windows Installer 4.5, and SQL Express 2008 and built using Visual Studio 2008.
The following are the results of a build. Appropriate MSIs and one exe: ~\setup.exe (for the bootstrapper) ~\de-de\ (folder) ~\de-de\setup.msi ~\en-us\ (folder) ~\en-us\setup.msi ~\fr-fr\ (folder) ~\fr-fr\setup.msi ~\ja-jp\ (folder) ~\ja-jp\setup.msi Bootstrap files (~380 MB): ~\DotNetFX35SP1\ (folder plus contents) ~\SqlExpress2008\ (folder plus contents) ~\WindowsInstaller3_1\ (folder plus contents) ~\WindowsInstaller4_5\ (folder plus contents) I have two questions. 1. How should this multi-language package be distributed to customers? As built with the above described folder structure in tact, after the setup.exe finishes executing and installing prereqs, it errors out attempting to find a setup.msi since each language's respective localized setup.msi is contained inside its own folder. The bootstrapper setup.exe is looking for a setup.msi in the same folder. Because there are 4 different MSIs built, does setup.exe AND all of the pre-requisite/bootstrap folders (DotNetFX35SP1, SqlExpress2008, WindowsInstaller3_1, WindowsInstaller4_5) need to be copied into EACH of the 4 language folders? This seems to be the only solution I can think of that actually works and this would seem to be ultra-redundant and a huge waste of disk space. 380 MB of the same files in 4 different locations does not seem to be the most eloquent solution. I looked into using transforms which seemed to work well when only executing the .msi, but it does not appear that bootstrapping and transforms work together at all. 2. Is there a way to localize the bootstrapper (setup.exe) such that the prompts such as the license file, title, and prompts are in their correct language? Currently, there is only one setup.exe which is only in English contained at the root directory. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Distributing-multi-language-installer-tp3427185p3427185.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
