Improving Installation Performance
InstallAnywhere 2021
Follow the points below to optimize your installers.
Minimizing Size of Installers
Here are several suggestions to minimize the size of an installer.
| • | Select the Optimize Installer Size by Platform and Tags check box (Advanced Designer > Build page > Build Installers view > Build Configurations tab > Distribution subtab). |
| • | Avoid the background image used in GUI installers. |
| • | Include a billboard that has a minimal file size. |
| • | Exclude install panel labels or panel images. |
| • | Use only the essential install steps. |
| • | Do not include an uninstaller if one is not necessary. |
| • | Use SpeedFolders to install groups of files together. SpeedFolders allow an entire folder of files to be treated as a single installation action, reducing space and increasing performance. |
| • | Only build for the needed locales. |
| • | Do not bundle a JRE. If you must include a JRE, use one that does not include international resources. |
Optimizing UNIX-Based Installers
InstallAnywhere creates a single UNIX-based installer without a bundled VM that can be run on most UNIX-based platforms. The installers with bundled VMs are built specifically for each platform and may be optimized for the platform. The UNIX-based installer without a bundled VM, however, contains all the resources that are needed for every UNIX-based platform. Having all of the resources for the various UNIX-based platforms can make this UNIX-based installer without VM larger than the optimized installers for individual UNIX-based platforms that actually include a VM. However, the UNIX-based installer without VM will be smaller than the UNIX-based installer built without platform optimizations. For similar reasons, the pure Java installer never receives any platform optimizations and is always the same size regardless of platform optimizations.