Msi two times larger than msm

Question

I have a .msm of 100MB and when I build my WiX project I get a .msi of 200MB Here some code:

Answer 1

As Chris says, you can try to enable high compression as illustrated here:

Read the media element documentation for more information. The "high" compression setting enables LZX instead of mszip format as far as I know.

Here is a post with info on the various compression levels available for the MSI: What is the compression method used by MSI files?

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Some Links:

• What is the compression method used by MSI files?
• http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/media.html