FileInstall Limit

[Roshith]

Hi,

I'm trying to create an installer that extracts about 586 files (3.2 GB) to temp directory, then executes the msi file. For this, I created a script with 586 fileinstall() functions.

Script runs perfectly when executed without compiling. But when executed after compiling, only 263 (~2 GB) files are extracted to the temp directory. The remaining fileinstall() functions returned 0. Is there any limit for usage of fileinstall() in a single script. If so, any work around other than creating a separate script for the remaining files.

-Roshith

[guinness]

  Help File said:

When this function is used from a non-compiled script, a copy operation is performed instead (to allow for easy testing pre-compilation).

Files maintain their original creation/modification timestamps when installed.

Hence why it works without compiling. As to the 'issue' a work around would be to compress all those file to a ZIP/7-Zip file and place it next to the compiled exe, instead of using FileInstall, which I've used for relatively small files.

Edit: It also could be (without testing it) because this is loaded into memory first and thus you get the error due to not enough memory available.

Edited January 20, 2013 by guinness

[Roshith]

Thanks for the workaround!

btw.. I checked the memory consumption by the process. Its just ~4k kb.

And I dont get any errors as such while executing. It successfully extracted files totaling ~2 GB, then fails to extract the remaining files returning '0'.

Please ignore if its a known issue..

[guinness]

Hmm, I don't want to speculate before testing. Also it's not technically related to AutoIt, but it's used for the installer, how about looking at NSIS for such a job?