2014-10-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcanto...@logossrl.com>: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:01:44PM +0100, Tim Hutt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to do some kicad development on windows. I initially downloaded >> & built it with kicad-winbuilder which went without a hitch. Kicad runs >> fine. >> >> However, if I perform a null-rebuild (i.e. I don't change anything and just >> run `make` again), it takes about 70 seconds to run. That's quite a while >> isn't it? My PC is pretty fast (quad core 3.3 GHz i5, 16GB RAM), so I >> wouldn't have expected it to take so long. Is this just a feature of cmake? > > It needs to check *a lot* of dependencies and timestamps; also each > submakefile has its own overhead. > > Probably cmake is slightly slower than automake, but IMHO not really > significant on a typical build. In fact even with distcc, I find linking > the heaviest step... consider this output for a full debug build: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 lomarcan lomarcan 268684355 ott 4 15:51 _pcbnew.kiface > > Yes, it's more than 256MB of stuff :D it takes a while to do that (if > only to read and write from disk).
My _pcbnew.kiface is just 16MB, but I guess that is because it is a Release build. No wonder a Debug build takes so much longer to build then. (If that is why your kiface is so big) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp