90 projects & old hardware is my guess. We have 120 projects across 3 solutions which takes my Core 2 Q6600 approximately 25 minutes to build from a command script. The C++, C# & Fortran projects are done in the first 15 minutes & the installers take the last 10 (could optimize more by using more Media ID's as the longest step in WiX builds for me is always compiling the cabs).
We still use Visual Studio 2005 so I expect moving to VS2008 might make reduce the build time. Also this machine will be 3 years old in a week or 2 so it's nowhere near the cutting edge. It has 2 250 GB 7200 RPM hard-drives in RAID 0 & 4 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 however I doubt newer hardware would be able to cut much off a 15 minute build to be "cost-effective". Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Wilbert van Dolleweerd [mailto:wilb...@arentheym.com] Sent: 25 August 2010 15:17 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Problems running 32-bit WIX on 64-bit Windows 7 2010/8/25 Ross Inglis <ring...@ipv.com>: > Hi All. > > I'm hoping for some ideas here. > > I am trying to move a large project build environment from an old slow > Windows-XP (32) machine to a (hopefully) faster Windows 7 (64) machine > - mainly to cut down on the current 3-hour build time for this > project. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Slightly off-topic: Why does your build take three hours to complete? We used to have a build that took over two hours to complete before we finally decided to create different builds for all the separate components in the system. This way, we significantly reduced build times. (We did have to redesign some parts of the architecture however). -- Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards, Wilbert van Dolleweerd Blog: http://walkingthestack.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wvandolleweerd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
