Naturally it will take a long time to compress 5GB of data, so you will have to expect that to take a while no matter what. If the files don't change often, one way to cut down on the build time might be to use light's "-cc" switch, to cache the CABs between builds.
Just in case, I have to ask - how many actual files do you have, and are they all in the same CAB? If you have a lot of files (1000+), you might try splitting up your files evenly into a few different cabs, until no CAB has more than, say, 1/4 the number of files you have total. Do that by defining several <Media> elements, and setting the DiskId differently on different file or directory elements. I suggest this because I've noticed a potential (theoretical) performance issue while looking at the cabbing code. The issue occurs when writing a large number of files to a single CAB - it gets worse (scales more than linearly) the more files you have in a single CAB. I haven't yet run performance numbers on it for an extreme case, but this *could* be an issue that's worsening your build times, if you have a lot of files in one CAB. If splitting your files close-to-evenly into multiple CABs noticeably quickens your build time, you may be running into this issue. Thanks, Mike Carlson -----Original Message----- From: Mahmoud Hamad [mailto:m.n.ha...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 2:31 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Make light.exe run faster. Hi All, I have about 5GB worth of files that i am trying to stuff within an MSI. I used heat.exe to auto-generate my *.wxs file and I then ran candle.exe to generate the corresponding object file. These two processes executed fairly fast. However, the linking\creation of the MSI using light.exe is taking considerably long. I know of I am dealing with lots of files, but is there anything I can do to speed the light.exe process. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Mahmoud _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail(r) goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
