Comments on: New WiX feature: DefaultCompressionLevel

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:56:26 +0000

Jeremy,

Yep, LZMA is a great algorithm; CAB definitely hasn’t kept up.

Let me know how it works using LZMA on no-compression cabinets. I’m wondering whether they’ll work well with solid compression.

By: Jeremy Stanley

Jeremy Stanley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:02:11 +0000

We’re migrating our product from Inno Setup to Windows Installer, and the installer size has doubled with .msi. The solid LZMA archive supported by IS does a whole lot better than whatever Microsoft calls “high”.

But this is still a useful feature, though – I’ll use weak Microsoft compression for daily builds, and _no_ compression for milestone releases–because then our bootstrapper (which extracts the .msi and does language transforms) can use LZMA to bring the whole thing down to size.

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:40:30 +0000

WiX supports the NETFRAMEWORK35 property in WixNetfxExtension to detect .NET 3.5. To install it when necessary, however, requires a chainer, which isn’t yet available in WiX.

By: Vidhya

Vidhya — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:28:40 +0000

Hi,

I need your help on to get the setup of my wpf application using Wix 3.0

Is there a way to check if the system has .net framework 3.5 while installing?
If it is there, just install the appln without any error and if its not there,
install .net 3.5 setup exe and then continue installing the application.

Can you tell me the steps for the same.

Can you tell me that what action/condition to do this?

Waiting for your reply.

Kind Regards,
Vidhya

By: Joy of Setup » WiX goodies: WixCop

Joy of Setup » WiX goodies: WixCop — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:27:35 +0000

[...] might make some more backward-compatible tweaks to simplify common tasks, like we’ve done a few times [...]

By: Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Link to info about a new feature in WiX v3.0 to globally set the default compression level

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:19:44 +0000

[...] Bob Arnson recently posted some information about a new feature he contributed to the WiX toolset that I wanted to link to here. This feature allows you to pass a new switch named -dcl to the WiX linker (light.exe) to specify a default compression level for all of the cabinets in a package. This type of global setting can be useful when using WiX in an automated build system where you’d like to allow developers to create buddy builds with no compression (to speed up buddy build times), but would also like to ensure that daily builds and release builds are compressed. [...]

By: Joy of Setup » Highlights of WiX v3.0.3801.0

Joy of Setup » Highlights of WiX v3.0.3801.0 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:07:20 +0000

[...] Add default compression level for cabinets, as discussed previously. [...]

By: Victor van Hillo

Victor van Hillo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:51:27 +0000

Bob,

Thanks for your quick response!

By: Bob Arnson

Bob Arnson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:39:56 +0000

Victor,

Older releases aren’t available; we get only 100MB of Web site space from SourceForge, so we have to recycle bits pretty quickly.

Getting the ComPlus and Msmq extensions building again is high on the bug list.

By: Victor van Hillo

Victor van Hillo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:18:22 +0000

Great to hear!

Can you also provide (fix the bug) the WixComPlusExtension.dll in Wix v3? I really need the dll in the .msi. I converted all projects to v3 but now I have a problem with Com installations. I know it is an open issue but i hope it will be fixed soon.

Or do you know where I can download older weekly builds? I need the build of 30 November 2007 there the WixComPlusExtension.dll is still included in the binaries.zip