Actually, heat.exe does look for certain file types such as ax/dll/ocx/tlb/exe/olb. The code is in the UtilHarvesterMutator.cs file.
Your running time does seem awful slow. If the files are located on disk I have seem much higher performance than the numbers you listed. I don't see a problem with the 45MB to start as heat is building a collection of WiX objects to go and sift through. I would say that overall machine speed would have a large impact on heat. The group I am is using heat for over 250K files and we aren't seeing nearly that much of a slow response. Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://blogs.msdn.com/icumove On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > Heat does not use file extensions to determine file types, so each of those > several hundred files is being processed as if they were binaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: FrankenInUSA [mailto:frankenin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:32 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Using Heat.exe > > Hi, > > I'm using 'heat.exe' to 'harvest' a directory with several hundred small > files and some twenty DLLs. > > - how long is that supposed to take? Currently it's running for 5hrs and > still not done. > - When it starts, it uses up to 45MB for a while. Now it's down to > 450KB. Is that normal? > > Here is the command line: > >heat.exe dir <directory -v -gg -nologo -sw5150 -out <ourproduct>.wxs > > I thought the -v would generate more information on what it is doing, > but I get nothing after the DLLs are processed. > Is there a way to see, what it is doing? > -- > > Best regards, > > Andreas mailto:frankenin...@gmail.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
