Hi Blair, Thanks for the tips... I'll see what happens when I get rid of the merge modules first.
I am using cab reuse, but it seems that I have to be careful, especially if I build in parallel - one build will trash another build's cached cab. - Brian Brian Gillespie Rhinoceros Development Robert McNeel & Associates On 10/18/2010 8:03 PM, Blair wrote: > In any given build, most of the time is typically taken doing three things: > moving files, building cabs, and embedding. > > For the scenario you describe, I would recommend each MSI end up with (at > least) three cabs (1. the 70 MB "common" cab, 2. the 50 MB "locale" cab, and > 3. the 3MB "platform" cab). Make sure you are using the "cab reuse" feature > of light (on by default in more recent builds). > > Making non-bound wixlibs may (or may not) help light's cab reuse algorithm > (it's been some time since I looked at it) but it could certainly help > organize your build activity, so I would recommend looking at it for its > code organizational aspects. > > Making merge modules will likely slow down your builds, since they have to > embed the files, then extract them and (possibly) embed them again. You may > see a speed increase by getting rid of your locale merge modules (especially > if you do NOT make them "binary/bound"). > > The typical projects I work on tend to take between 15 and 65 minutes to > link, and at most 1 minute of that is spent processing the XML, > generating/populating/importing the tables, and other related tasks. All the > rest is spent copying file content around. > > -Blair > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Gillespie [mailto:br...@mcneel.com] > Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 12:10 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Do WiX 3.0 link times improve using .wixlib files? > > Hi, > > I have a project that builds 88 different flavors - the cross product of > these three variables: > > Platform: x86 | x64 > Configuration: Beta | Retail | Evaluation | Another Evaluation > Locale: cs, en-us, es-es, de-de, fr-fr, it-it, ja, ko, pl, zh-cn, zh-tw > > A core exe (3MB) changes with both Platform and Configuration, and > locale-related stuff changes with each local (50MB). The rest of the > content of each installer is identical (70MB). > > A merge module is built for each locale. A big wix project then is built > to make each flavor. It takes 3-5 minutes each. > > Would moving the shared contents from the core installer to a .wixlib or > merge module make any difference in link times? It will take some effort > to rearrange the code, and I don't want to bother if it will make no > difference in the final build times. Do you have any things I should > watch out for that could adversely affect performance? > > Thanks in advance, > - Brian > > Brian Gillespie > Rhinoceros Development > Robert McNeel& Associates > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 > The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly > Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run > across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 > The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly > Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run > across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
