[CMake] Warning about make 3.81 on cygwin

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Mon Aug 14 16:34:14 EDT 2006


At 04:23 PM 8/14/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>So, with cmake you can use "Unix Makefiles" to build with the microsoft
>>compiler cl.  
>
>Holy build permutations Batman!   Neat trick though this may be, it's small wonder I've stuck with a policy of keeping "usual tools" together.
It is very useful with VS 2005 on a multi-processor or dual core machine.
VS 2005 supports parallel builds from the IDE, but nmake does not.  So, if
you want to build large projects fast from the command line, you need a make
that will support -j N builds.   gmake fits the bill.  One one of the machines
here the build time for cmake is 4 times faster with gmake -j 4, than with 
nmake or gmake.

-Bill



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