Is there a way to speed up WiX builds?

Question

I've built an installer using WiX 3.0. The installer contains additional installers that can be run to add functionality at a later time. The "sub" installers are large-ish (totaling ~200MB). WiX builds were around a minute until I added these "sub" installers and then times increase to about 11 minutes. For reference, I'm building to a single .msi output with the EmbedCab="yes". Any tricks out there to speed this up?

Answer 1

The cab cache will probably save you a lot of time. See my answer to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1207020/reusing-wix-components-to-speed-up-candle-light