Iexpress for large files (corrupted Cabinet file)

Question

I wish to combine many installers and make an exe using Iexpress. Total size of installers is 750MB. I tried combine and generated using Iexpress but the created exe file size is only 80MB. And when i double click and attempt to run the exe, its stated that its corrupted cabinet file and cannot be executed. After that i rebuild two exe files by separated installers into two groups and each group file size is around 300++MB. Both exe files are executed successfully. So i suspect that i cannot build all installers into one exe due to its large size. May i ask whether it is correct that iexpress will restrict the exe file size or i am doing something wrong on this?

Prudhoe

Answer 1

I think a IExpress package is limited to about the size of a CD-ROM. If you look at the auto-generated DDF file that IExpress generates, one of the directives it gives is:

.Set MaxDiskSize=CDROM

Probably this means ~650MB.

I tried to find a way to change it, but I don’t see how, sorry.

Starchy

Checking the DDF file I see another directive: .Set MaxCabinetSize=999999999. – Bullet

@JuanFerrer, which OS was this? They may have raised the limit (my answer here is a few years old now, and probably checked in Windows 7). – Starchy

Oh, no, the limit is still that. I'm just saying there is another directive, but it seems to be ignored or used for something different. Windows 10 is what I'm using. – Bullet

My bad, I didn't see that the directive names were different. Thanks! – Starchy