On 11/27/2011 05:21 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:46:10AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> To build VTK on our windows build server, I wrote a small batch script >>> that invokes "cmake --build". >>> >>> My developer machine is multicore; is there a way to get "cmake --build" >>> to run multiple jobs? >>> >> >> On windows, I use the following tool >> >> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/runjobs.aspx >> >> to build each configuration (Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo ...) in >> parallel using separate calls to cmake --build. > > Thanks -- that's great tip. > > In my present case, however, I'm building just the Release > configuration and was hoping to parallelize that with the equivalent > of "make -jN".
IIRC, "cmake --build" once invoked MSBuild in a VS environment, and MSBuild has the /maxcpucount option, see [1]. Have you already tried to achieve something similar with the VS2010 devenv-based mechanism? > To Michael Hertling's comment: > >> "cmake --build" is just a front-end for the native build tool CMake >> generates input for. If this tool can be invoked via the command >> line with options for parallel building, you can provide them after >> the "--" in the "cmake --build" command, e.g. "cmake --build >> <bindir> -- -j 4" for parallel building with Makefiles. > > I would do this if I were using makefiles. In the present case, I'm > using Microsoft VS2010. I was kind of hoping that "cmake" had > abstracted the parallelism so that I could stay ignorant of the Visual > Studio command line details and possibly in future write build scripts > that are cross-platform. Are configured build scripts an option? As a project knows for which build tool it is configured, it should be able to generate a build- tool-independent build script for itself. Regards, Michael [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164311.aspx -- 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