It is unlikely that the compiling/linking is taking a lot of time. .wixlibs
may help some but if the majority of your time is spent moving files around you
won't see a big win there. It is easy to use .wixlibs, just use "lit.exe" on a
bunch of .wixobjs then add the .wixlib on the command-line to "light.exe"
instead of all the .wixobjs.
Merge Modules will only make the file processing slower because files are
compressed into the Merge Module during Merge Module creation. Then when used
in an MSI the files are extracted from the Merge Module and laid out (often
compressed) into the MSI image.
I think the feature you really are looking for is the "cabinet cache", assuming
your files are compressed. The cabinet cache works by creating the cabinet
once then re-using the cabinet in multiple MSIs. It's kinda' like incremental
linking.
Check out the switches on light.exe for how to define where the cabinet cache
should be.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Leahy
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 12:03
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Using wixlibs or msm's to speed build process?
We have some installers that take a while to build, and we're currently doing a
lot of releases that don't change a large portion of the files in the installer
(much of the installer is 'content' rather than 'system' files).
Can anybody point me at a reference for how to use wixlibs or msm's to
incrementally build our installer (i.e. build a wixlib or a msm for the content
that just gets merged (hopefully quickly) into the output msi)?
Is this likely to improve things, or is it more likely that this will take just
as long to build as the other process?
Thanks,
Kelly Leahy
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