Hi Blair, I did not supply mspatchc with the pdb, but I will try this as well as the dll's from a few other SDK versions.
By PE/+ are you referring to the mspatch tools? These were 32-bit. Thank you, Darren On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > One additional question: are the binary files PE or PE+? mspatchc/mspatcha > are documented to work better with 32-bit (PE) than 64-bit (PE+) files. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 6:43 PM > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Delta patching a very large binary file. > > Were you able to supply mspatchc with the symbols file (*.pdb) for the > binary? It is documented to be able to better compress files when the PDB is > supplied. I don't know what definition of better they mean, but you could > try it both ways (with and without the PDBs). > > Unfortunately Windows Installer uses mspatcha to apply the delta to the > file(s), and that doesn't appear to be overridable. If you can find a > replacement for mspatchc that doesn't fail with the large files that > produces output compatible with mspatcha (assuming mspatcha can deal with > files that big), I can help you with the binder extension you would need to > build your delta patches. > > Also mspatchc/mspatcha come from Windows (mspatchc in the SDK and mspatcha > in Windows itself). You could try changing the mspatchc/mspatcha versions to > see if the windows build/sdk they come from make any difference. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Darren Grant [mailto:therealklu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:25 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Delta patching a very large binary file. > > Hi, > > I am new to WiX and MSI programming in general, coming from an > imperative NSIS background where I used vpatch to apply delta patches > to large (> 500-MB) binary files. > > Deferring to the experts out there, how do you achieve this with WiX? > :) Unfortunately the files are too large for mspatchc and it just > creates a replacement instead of a delta after almost a couple hours > of processing. > > > Thank you! > > --Darren > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
