Were you able to supply mspatchc with the symbols file (*.pdb) for the binary? It is documented to be able to better compress files when the PDB is supplied. I don't know what definition of better they mean, but you could try it both ways (with and without the PDBs).
Unfortunately Windows Installer uses mspatcha to apply the delta to the file(s), and that doesn't appear to be overridable. If you can find a replacement for mspatchc that doesn't fail with the large files that produces output compatible with mspatcha (assuming mspatcha can deal with files that big), I can help you with the binder extension you would need to build your delta patches. Also mspatchc/mspatcha come from Windows (mspatchc in the SDK and mspatcha in Windows itself). You could try changing the mspatchc/mspatcha versions to see if the windows build/sdk they come from make any difference. -----Original Message----- From: Darren Grant [mailto:therealklu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Delta patching a very large binary file. Hi, I am new to WiX and MSI programming in general, coming from an imperative NSIS background where I used vpatch to apply delta patches to large (> 500-MB) binary files. Deferring to the experts out there, how do you achieve this with WiX? :) Unfortunately the files are too large for mspatchc and it just creates a replacement instead of a delta after almost a couple hours of processing. Thank you! --Darren ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
