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Sergey
Sergey

Reputation: 11

Compressed file (packed EXE) in WIX/MSI package increase MSI size by twice

I have simple WiX MSI installer script. This script generate package what deploy only one exe file. This file is Java application wrapped to exe file. Overall size of this exe is 10MB. Unfortunately when I get builded MSI final size of MSI increased by twice - e.g. 20MB.

I tried to change attribute Media/CompressionLevel to none/high/low/mszip - but can get acceptable MSI size.

Please help - I need get uncompressed MSI with similar to deployed exe size +/- 3-4 MB!

Thank you !

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1120

Answers (1)

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55601

Windows Installer natively only supports some pretty basic compression formats. You might want to give InstallAware's Setup Squeezer a try.

Upvotes: 2

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