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Duplication of files in the installer = big installer

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:28 am
by jizzleb
Hi everyone!

I wonder if any of you have experianced a problem before were you have a large file needed in multiple locations in the installer.

I would expect the installaware application to compress and include it just once, but instead it seems to compress it multiple times.

E.g. we have a 60mb dll file that we use in three different places, it makes the installer about 180mb!

Cheers

Jon

Re: Duplication of files in the installer = big installer

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:20 pm
by mills
You could include the file only a single time in the installer, then copy it to the other places you want it with the Copy/Move Files or Call DLL Function (kernel32.dll, CopyFileA) commands.