Single File Size

paul.fitzpatrick@avondata · Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:16 am

During our evaluation of Install products we evaluated InstallShield and InstallAware - We obviously choose InstallAware as the better product.

It has now become apparant that although the InstallShield project and InstallAware projects contain exactly the same files, pre-requisties, runtimes, and merge modules.

InstallAware single file size is far bigger than InstallShield single file size
a massive 817mb vs 215mb!

I have changed the compression settings to be "Best" and still have a massive size difference.

Are there any other settings? Or is there a good reason for the size differences?

Thanks
Paul Fitzpatrick

neillans · Post by **neillans** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:37 am

That's unexpected ... can you post some information such as what runtimes you are bundling etc ? Are you sure that InstallShield was including all the pre-requisites ?

paul.fitzpatrick@avondata · Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:38 am

The only differences between the two projects is that the IA one has a 200k flash movie and sql native msi in the creatives (both of these files together do not equate to over 5mb).

As for pre-req:
.NET Framework 2.0
Crystal Reports 2.0

Components
==========

CSCal32.ocx
CScomb32.ocx
CSform32.ocx
CSlist32.ocx
CSMail.dll
csstray5.ocx
csstray6.ocx
CSText32.ocx
ctContact.ocx
ctDate.ocx
ctDropDate.ocx
ctList.ocx
ctListBar.ocx
ctMDay.ocx
ctSchedule.ocx
ctToolBar.ocx
INNOVAALERT.OCX
MFCANS32.DLL
PDQCOM32.OCX
PolarZIP.ocx
qpro32.dll
ssa3d30.ocx
sssplt30.ocx
VB5DB.DLL
VSFLEX3.OCX
Vsflex7.ocx
Vsflex7d.ocx
Vsflex7L.ocx
wshom.ocx

Dot NET Assemblies
==================

Dbi.dll
Dbi3.dll
dbiCalendar.dll
dbiDate.dll
dbiDayView.dll
dbiDropDate.dll
dbiMonth.dll
dbiPim.dll
dbiPim2.dll
dbiScheduleE.dll
DevExpress.Data.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.OfficeSkins.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.Utils.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraBars.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraCharts.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraEditors.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraNavBar.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraPrinting.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraReports.v7.2.dll
DevExpress.XtraReports.v7.2.Import.dll
DotNetVisionMergeModuleVS2005 7.1.12.msm
DotNetVisionMergeModuleVS2005.msm
Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo.dll
Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll

Merge Modules
=============

atl.msm
comcat.msm
comct232.msm
comct332.msm
comctl32.msm
comdlg32.msm
Crystal Reports - Crystal Report Engine API.Msm
Crystal Reports - Crystal SQL Designer Files.Msm
Crystal Reports - Direct Access - ACT!.Msm
Crystal Reports - Direct Access - NT Event Log.Msm
Crystal Reports - Direct Access - Paradox.Msm
Crystal Reports - ODBC - Informix.Msm
Crystal Reports - ODBC - Oracle.Msm
Crystal Reports - ODBC - Sybase Adaptive Server.Msm
Crystal Reports - User Function Libraries.Msm
CrystalReport85_ExportRTF.msm
CrystalReports8.5ActiveDataandCrystalDataObject.Msm
CrystalReports8.5CrystalReportAPI.Msm
CrystalReports8.Msm
CrystalReports85.Msm
CrystalReports85ActiveXViewer.Msm
CrystalReports85CrystalActiveXControl.Msm
CrystalReports85CrystalReportEngineAPI.Msm
CrystalReports85CrystalReportsAutomationServer.Msm
CrystalReports85CrystalSQLDesignerFiles.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessAccess7.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessACT3and4.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessExchangeOutlook.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessInformix.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessLocalFileSystem.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessLotusDomino.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessMicrosoftIISProxyLogFile.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessMicrosoftSQLServer6x.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessOracle.Msm
CrystalReports85DirectAccessSybaseAdaptiveServer.Msm
CrystalReports85EmbeddableDesignerControl.Msm
CrystalReports85EngineAccessCore.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportCRFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportDIFFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportHTMLFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportODBC.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportPDFFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportRichTextFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportToDisk.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportToExchangeFolders.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportToNotes.Msm
CrystalReports85ExportXMLFormat.Msm
CrystalReports85HTMLTranslation.Msm
CrystalReports85Maps.Msm
CrystalReports85ODBCXML.Msm
CrystalReports85P2IXBSE.Msm
CrystalReports85PageRangedExport.Msm
CrystalReports85ReportDesignerComponent.Msm
CrystalReports85SP.Msm
CrystalReports85SQLExpressions.Msm
CrystalReports85_ActiveXControl.msm
CrystalReports85_ASP_ActiveX_Viewer.msm
CrystalReports85_ASP_Java_Viewer.msm
CrystalReports85_ASP_WebRptSrvr.msm
CrystalReports85_AutomationServer.msm
CrystalReports85_Charts.msm
CrystalReports85_CommonMerantModule.msm
CrystalReports85_CommonODBCModule.msm
CrystalReports85_Craxdrt.msm
CrystalReports85_Crpaig80.msm
CrystalReports85_Crpre32.msm
CrystalReports85_Crviewer.msm
CrystalReports85_CrystalDataObject.msm
CrystalReports85_Dictionaries.msm
CrystalReports85_DirectAccess_Act.msm
CrystalReports85_DirectAccess_Act34.msm
CrystalReports85_DirectAccess_DB2.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Access7.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Access8.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_ActiveData.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Clipper.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_dBase.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_dBaseIDAPI.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_ExchOutlk.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_FoxPro.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_IIS_Proxy.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Informix.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_LclFileSys.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_LotusDom.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_NT_EvntLog.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Oracle.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Paradox.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_SQLServer.msm
CrystalReports85_DrctAcc_Sybase.msm
CrystalReports85_EmbedRepDes.msm
CrystalReports85_EngineAPI.msm
CrystalReports85_ExpExchFolders.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportCRFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportCSVFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportDIFFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportExcelFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportHTMLFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportLotus123.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportODBC.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportPDFFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportRecordFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportTextFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportToApp.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportToDisk.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportToMAPI.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportToNotes.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportToVIM.msm
CrystalReports85_ExporttoWord.msm
CrystalReports85_ExportXMLFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_ExpRprtDefFormat.msm
CrystalReports85_HTML.msm
CrystalReports85_Imploder.msm
CrystalReports85_Maps.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Access.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Ascii_Text.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Centura.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_DB2.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Excel.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Informix.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_LotusDomino.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_MsSqlServer.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Oracle.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_PeopleSoft.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_Sybase_AdServ.msm
CrystalReports85_ODBC_XML.msm
CrystalReports85_OleDb_ADO.msm
CrystalReports85_OleDb_DataSource.msm
CrystalReports85_PageRangedExport.msm
CrystalReports85_ReptDesComp.msm
CrystalReports85_SQLExpressions.msm
CrystalReports85_SQL_Designer_Files.msm
CrystalReports85_Sscsdk_Pg32conv.msm
CrystalReports85_UserFuncLib.msm
CrystalReports8ActiveDataAndCrystalDataObject.Msm
CrystalReports8ActiveXViewer.Msm
CrystalReports8CrystalActiveXControl.Msm
CrystalReports8CrystalReportAPI.Msm
CrystalReports8CrystalReportEngineAPI.Msm
CrystalReports8CrystalReportsAutomationServer.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessAccess7.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessACT3and4.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessExchangeOutlook.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessInformix.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessLocalFileSystem.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessLotusDomino.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessMicrosoftIISProxyLogFile.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessMicrosoftSQLServer6x.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessOracle.Msm
CrystalReports8DirectAccessSybaseAdaptiveServer.Msm
CrystalReports8EngineAccessCore.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportCRFormat.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportDIFFormat.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportODBC.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportRichTextFormat.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportToDisk.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportToExchangeFolders.Msm
CrystalReports8ExportToNotes.Msm
CrystalReports8Maps.Msm
CrystalReports8ReportDesignerComponent.Msm
CrystalReports8SQLExpressions.Msm
CrystalReportsActiveDataDriver.Msm
CrystalReportsActiveXViewerSupplement.Msm
CrystalReportsCharting.Msm
CrystalReportsCharts.Msm
CrystalReportsCommonODBC.Msm
CrystalReportsCrystalActiveXControlCommonDeps.Msm
CrystalReportsDirectAccessDB2.Msm
CrystalReportsDirectAccessxBaseSupport.Msm
CrystalReportsExportCSVFormat.Msm
CrystalReportsExportExcelFormat.Msm
CrystalReportsExportLotus123Format.Msm
CrystalReportsExportRecordFormat.Msm
CrystalReportsExportReportDefinitionFormat.Msm
CrystalReportsExportTextFormat.Msm
CrystalReportsExportToApplication.Msm
CrystalReportsExportToMAPI.Msm
CrystalReportsExportToVIM.Msm
CrystalReportsImploder.Msm
CrystalReportsMapsAllNonGridDataFiles.Msm
CrystalReportsMapsSupplement.Msm
CrystalReportsMapXProjectAndLicense.Msm
CrystalReportsODBCCenturaSQLBase.Msm
CrystalReportsODBCDB2_2.Msm
CrystalReportsP2IXBSE.Msm
CrystalReportsReportDesignerSupplement.Msm
CrystalReportsSQLSemantics.Msm
CrystalReports_DirectAccess_dBASEIDAPI_BDE.Msm
CrystalReports_PrintEngineWrapper.Msm
dao350.msm
dao360.msm
dbgrid32.msm
dblist32.msm
dcom95.msm
jet351.msm
Jet40.msm
jet40sp7.msm
mci32.msm
MDAC25.Msm
MDAC26.Msm
mdac27enu.msm
MDAC28.msm
mfc42.msm
mfc42u.msm
msadodc.msm
msbind.msm
mschrt20.msm
mscomct2.msm
mscomctl.msm
mscomm32.msm
msdatgrd.msm
msdatlst.msm
msdatrep.msm
msdbrptr.msm
msderun.msm
msflxgrd.msm
mshflxgd.msm
mshtmpgr.msm
msinet.msm
msmapi32.msm
msmask32.msm
msrdc20.msm
msrdo20.msm
msstdfmt.msm
msstkprp.msm
msvbvm60.msm
msvcirt.msm
msvcp60.msm
msvcrt.msm
mswcrun.msm
mswinsck.msm
oareg.msm
oleaut32.msm
oledb21.msm
picclp32.msm
sysinfo.msm
tabctl32.msm
vbscriptruntimeenu.msm
wsh56.msm

Other
=====
sqlncli.msi

We also have SQL Express 2005 installed - I have followed an article from your forum to change this to include (as part of it) SQL Mangement Studio (I did this by editing the exress.7zip file

It also obviously has a load of our program files in it - These are a total of:
842 which equates to 239mb - Don't forget that this should be compressed by IA (If I compress it using ZIP it goes to 47.9mb)

paul.fitzpatrick@avondata · Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:42 am

Don't know what happened to the end of that post - basically it ended with this:

It also has sql express 2005 included

There is also a total of 881 files that make up our programs suite which also get installed, these equate to 239mb - If i compress them using ZIP it goes to 43.9 mb.

neillans · Post by **neillans** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:22 pm

Interesting.

Would you be able to provide some files for further investigation by our dev team?

We would need:
- InstallAware installer scripts
- Files used in the above
- InstallShield (compiled) project