Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Brett Kapilik
You can try using -sval to supress the MSI validation. That is what eats up most of the time. But of couse, you miss out on validation... However, for doing test builds, that should speed it up. - Brett -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Igor Maslov
Switching off MSI validation does not seem quite right, but having build last for 10 hours is not acceptable as well. I wonder why light.exe takes only 3-8% of CPU and almost no hard drive activity mosst of the time. What it actually does? Brett Kapilik wrote: You can try using -sval to

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Simon Dahlbacka
try switching off antivirus and similar products fiddling around with your files behind your back.. On 5/11/07, Igor Maslov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Switching off MSI validation does not seem quite right, but having build last for 10 hours is not acceptable as well. I wonder why light.exe

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Igor Maslov
I can't - company policy. I don't think such slow speed can be explained by antivirus software, but who knows. Simon Dahlbacka wrote: try switching off antivirus and similar products fiddling around with your files behind your back.. On 5/11/07, Igor Maslov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Rob Mensching
Antivirus tools can do amazing horrible things to the build operations that the WiX toolset does. Moving files around and cabinet modifications seem to look like virus stuff. Disabling the antivirus from scanning the directories where you are having stuff built (including %TEMP% or %WIX_TEMP%

Re: [WiX-users] light.exe is very slow. What options is safe use to make link faster?

2007-05-11 Thread Igor Maslov
This sounds like a plan. I can skip validation for all my intermediate MSI files for each language and then do a single validation of a final MSI that contains all transforms from a neutral to each language. Thanks, Igor Rob Mensching-2 wrote: Antivirus tools can do amazing horrible