InstallAware

We recently upgraded from version 6 to 2012 and I am glad that "everything" stays the same, that's really good.

However, the build speed has changed dramatically. Our build in version 6 took about 1 minute, now we have to wait for 15 minutes to have the same result.

I noticed that gif and png files within our setup are causing this. Each gif/png (10-15KB) takes 5 seconds and we have a lot of them. Reducing of compression strength does not change anything here.

Any ideas? Thanks.

compression strength does not change anything here.

Btw. if we set compression level to max, our setup has 1 MB more than the one from IA6. Does not hurt too much, but strange.

Dear User,

It is quite strange ... I use Ia 2012 too, building projects that have large file compressed and works fine.

I do not know .... also because you said that by reducing compression strength does not change anything.

If you do not use compression, does the same?

Regards

Hi,
i "used" InstallAware also now ... and it seems it is what i am looking for.
But the speed is very bad - it is so bad that i think it must be a bug or a missig thing or so.

I tried to repacke a setup because this setup has problems with 64 bit. So i setuo a VM-Ware Virtual XP Comuter on my laptop (Intel I5 4GB RAM)

The first step went as expected. (Setup Capture - about 5 Minutes)

After that i installed InstallAware and tried to make a single SETUP-File. First try was all default.
After 23 hours i gave up. No result. I changed Compression. Another 10 hours later i tried my laptop
not the Virtual Maschine.
It took about 30 minutes to find out that a file was missing. Debugging or somethink like this is impossible.
(1.5 GB files ... mainly small sample .vb .htm files)


Whats wrong with that. I realy dont believe that a programm with a couple of years expeariance is so slow.

Do i make something wrong? Are there any hints?

Exclude the ia compiler and the projects from the antivirus engine. This made a huge difference in my case...
I currently run ms security essentials...

Yes it could be possible that the antivirus engine is causing this.

Regards