On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com> wrote: > On 12/8/2010 12:53 PM, Gabriel Petrovay wrote: >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> First just by running "cmake -E vs_link_exe" CMake crashes on my >> machine (CMake 2.8.2, Win7): "cmake.exe stopped working" "Close the >> program/Debug the program". Is this the right behaviour? >> > It is not meant to be a command that is called by hand, so it might not have > all the arguments it wants, and it crashed. Not expected, but not that > harmful either. > >> Then, below is my verbose output. I see no /INCREMENTAL:YES in my link >> command. How did you get this in your link command? (This is anyway >> the default option.) > > Are you building Release? I think CMake only defaults to incremental builds > for debug builds. So, RELWITHDEBINFO and DEBUG build types will be the only > ones that do this by default.
I am building in debug mode. > You would want to add the incremental flag to this cache variable to get > CMake to link incrementally with release: > CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS_RELEASE I don't know how can incremental linking work because mt.exe modifies the timestmp of the dll (after the last link.exe was called), therefore according to the linker documentation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4khtbfyf(v=VS.100).aspx), this is a case in which link.exe will fully link. >> The problem is that calling mt.exe after linking modifies the >> timestamp of the dll. Therefore the next run of nmake will trigger a >> full link as the below output shows: >> LINK : zorba_simplestore.dll not found or not built by the last >> incremental link; performing full link >> But I already had the dll built by a previous build. >> > Yes, it does that for release builds, as the exe and dll files do not have > the extra space needed for incremental linking. Basically, CMake supports > incremental and non-incremental linking. If the /INCREMENTAL:YES flag is > found then cmake -E vs_link_exe is used. If not, then the non-incremental > approach is taken. So, what happens with the debug build? > All is working as expected. > > -Bill > -- MSc Gabriel Petrovay Mobile: +41(0)787978034 www.28msec.com _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake