EXE file has gone from 987 MB to 1.5 GB

[wxperson99]

Hi,

I have a project with a lot of data files which when built with the first level of compression was resulting in a EXE file of 987 MB.

I then did a build with output of MSI and it created a MSI file of about 1.5 GB.

Now when I have gone back to building only the exe file.... I am getting an EXE file of 1.5 GB.

NOTHING else in the project has changed. Just the change in what I wanted to build.

Does anyhow have any idea of what might be going on here? I even restored the project from a backup which was before I did the MSI compile but even with that... I am still creating 1.5 GB sized .EXE files.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

George

[FrancescoT]

Dear George,

the size of the generated setup package directly depends on the files included by your project ... so probably, you are now using a different image of your source files which is bigger of the one you used previously. For sure this has nothing to do with IA.

Regards

[wxperson99]

Thanks...

You of course correct. I had created a .zip backup file and left it in a folder that gets installed. That zip was .5 GB.

Doh!

George

[FrancescoT]