I created a WIX project in Visual Studio 2010 over a year ago. It creates an MSI file and a bootstrapper setup.exe. Actually, it creates that pair of files for two languages - English and French. I am just now integrating this project into our TFS CI builds. I'm having trouble getting the CI build to generate the bootstrapper setup.exe files.
We've recently upgraded Wix on all our build servers to Wix 3.6 RC. So, I thought I'd give Burn a try instead of using the old style of bootstrapper. I added a new Bootstrapper project to my solution. The bootstrapper project includes a simple bundle.wxs that just loads the MSI generated by my old MSI project. However, when I try to build I get the following error:
error LGHT0103: The system cannot find the file 'C:\Tf\Advantage\Dev\Solution\Configuration\LaunchPad.Wix\bin\Release\fr-fr\LaunchPad.msi;C:\Tf\Advantage\Dev\Solution\Configuration\LaunchPad.Wix\bin\Release\en-us\LaunchPad.msi'.
My package reference in the bundle looks like this:
<MsiPackage Id="MyApplication" SourceFile="$(var.LaunchPad.Wix.TargetPath)" />
LaunchPad.Wix is the name of the Wix MSI project. If I change the LaunchPad.Wix project to build only one language then it works fine. It looks to me like the bootstrapper project type just doesn't support building setup files for multiple languages. Is this true? Any suggestions for a workaround?
Edit
Upon further investigation, I wonder if bootstrapper projects even support localization. I tried setting my Wix MSI project to create only fr-fr. The setup.exe that my bootstrapper project created with English. When I edit the project properties for the bootstrapper project the "Cultures to build" field is locked down and blank. How would I build a non-english bootstrapper? Is this possible yet?