I have recently migrated from Wise to WiX. I have approximately 150 merge modules (at some point in the future I may be able to implement libs instead of merge modules, but for now .) and several installs that include some subset of the merge modules. I have implemented a VS solution for all the merge modules and for each MSI project. I am wondering if amyone has any insight or suggestions as to how I might reduce the compilation time for the merge module solution? I have attempted simply loading the solution with devenv and sending each wixproj to msbuild seperately. Both take basically the same amount of time. I also attempted to parallelize the calls to msbuild, both using the maxcpu switch and by starting each process as a background process (under cygwin), neither approach succeeded in reducing the build time. The system CPU seems to idle at about 20% and the memory footprint is ~ 0.5GB. The machine is a Quad core with 4GB, running Windows Server 2003 R2 (32bit).
On real hardware the merge module solution takes about 30 minutes. But we recently virtualized our build machines and on the virtual systems the same solution takes about 90 minutes. Virtual servers are running Microsoft's Hyper-V Platform, each virtual server currently has 4 processors allocated, 4GB, running Server 2003 R2. Suggestions would be welcome. Thanks, Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
