thanks for the tip. i set it to 'high' and got 1MB of improvement. then i
had an idea, i chose not to embed the cab, and here's what i found the
resulting .cab file (containing all files) was in fact only 2MB, the .msi
was a whopping 7MB (!), is that really as good as it gets? all my installer
does is a license agreement and the install path gui.
i'm also have the WixUIExtensions referenced
here are some more relevants:
<Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALLDIR" />
<UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir" />
<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />
<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="pblicense.rtf" />
<WixVariable Id="WixUIBannerBmp" Value="bannrbmp.bmp" />
<WixVariable Id="WixUIDialogBmp" Value="dlgbmp.bmp" />
any other suggestions?
thanks in advance
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:01:20 -0400
From: "Brian Simoneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] msi package compression
To: <WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Look at the CompressionLevel attribute of the Media element.
-Brian Simoneau
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koloszar
Jozsef
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:11 AM
To: Bob Arnson
Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] msi package compression
hi,
i have a "big" problem. i'm building my msi installer, and its just too
big.
it contains 6MBs worth of files, and the final msi installer size is
10MB
!!! the installer contais a single package, and i have compressed='yes'
specified. so what's the problem. (if i pass the msi file through zip,
its
get compressed to 4-5MB. please don't tell me i need to bootstrap to
compress...
i fell like i'm missing something important here.
thanks for any and all the help you can provide!
joe koloszar
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