The actual engine executable is ~300 KB. You are likely attaching all your packages to the executable by leaving things Compressed='yes'. Change the Bundle/@Compressed attribute to 'no' and you'll see a far smaller executable (should be under a megabyte).
That is what VS2010 does. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Harmon, Joseph <jhar...@illumina.com>wrote: > The burn engine drops everything into one large executable, i.e. > "Setup.exe". I'm just looking for any way to make the executable smaller > so its startup performance will be improved, by perhaps doing something > similar to using reflection to reference a dll at runtime. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:18 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Installer size issue > > What do you mean by " to put some of the components into a separate dll "? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harmon, Joseph [mailto:jhar...@illumina.com] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:03 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Installer size issue > > Rob, I can work on getting perf data, let me get back to you... > > Thanks for the ideas (digital signing & splash screen), I will look into > those... In regards to my original question, is there no way to put some > of the components into a separate dll? > > Thx > -Joseph > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:45 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle Installer size issue > > If your executable is signed then Windows will verify the signature before > launching the executable. For very large executables, that can take some > time. It's not a very great user experience. 300MB is about the breaking > point for user experience, especially if launched over network. > > PS: if you have perf numbers showing the engine taking a while to load the > BA, I'd love to see them. That is a sensitive perf area we can try to > improve with data. > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Amadeus <amadeus.h...@diadrom.se> wrote: > > > 300k seems about right (my Installer is 1.4 MB - downloading all > > MSIs/EXEPackages). > > > > It /does /take awhile for Burn to boot up itself and launch the custom > > BA though. But like Neil said, a splash screen does the trick. Add it > > inside the <Bundle> element, and close it when your BA has finished > > loading up. 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