Pre-compiling user installable data.

[rentzk]

The program that I am currently writing an installer for has a large amount of data files that it installs. Compressing these files into single file installer adds about 30 minutes to each compilation. Since these files rarely change, is there any way that they can be pre-compiled like the pre-requisites can be?

[FrancescoT]

Dear Rentzk,

unfortunately such possibility is limited to Pre-Compiled Application Runtimes only.

You may eventually temporarily build your package as Compressed WEB Exe to save time during development. In this way you can build your web media blocks only once and then to skip building web media blocks for subsequent builds.

Finally to test the package, leave all required WMBs within the same folder where your setup.exe has been stored and then execute the installer from there.

Make a copy of the generated WMBs before to run subsequent builds ... otherwise these will be deleted.

Hope this helps you.

Regards

[rentzk]

thanks. I'll experiment with the web media blocks and see if I can use them to decrease the build time. If not, then I always have an excuse to go to an SSD on the build system.