if you want to make the setup smaller, you should perhaps use NSIS (http://nsis.sourceforge.net/) as installer.
Have you created a similar C::B setup with NSIS and you 've seen a difference in size?I have used NSIS in a few projects now, its really small. The installer (without data) ist normally smaller than 100kB.
Or did you read somewhere that NSIS can produce smaller setups and you 're reproducing it here?
The 1.0rc2 setup file being prepared now, is 3.3Mb including all plugins (standard, contrib *and* off-site).This is Off-Topic a bit but does this mean rc2 is coming out soon? :wink:
You might not know it, but it uses LZMA compression so, as Thomas pointed out, the only real difference (if any) is the stub size which is negligible...
Original installer: | 3.474.193 |
NSIS 2.10: | 4.024.380 |
SetCompressor /FINAL /SOLID LZMA
SetCompressorDictSize 32