[CMake] Compilation speed with CMake/NMake combination, making it faster?

Christian Ehrlicher Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Tue Dec 11 05:43:06 EST 2007


> Von: "Josef Karthauser" <joe.karthauser at geomerics.com>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Torsten Martinsen [mailto:tma at gatehouse.dk]
> > Sent: 11 December 2007 09:08
> > To: Josef Karthauser; CMake ML
> > Subject: RE: [CMake] Compilation speed with CMake/NMake combination,
> > making it faster?
> > 
> > > *         We're using an NMake build tree, is NMake particularly
> > > slow?  Do any of the other makes work more efficiently?
> > 
> > Be aware that nmake builds are much slower than using devenv, as nmake
> > starts a cl.exe process for every single file,
> > whereas devenv calls cl.exe with several source files. This costs, due
> > to the high process overhead on Windows.
> 
> I understand that.
It's not a nmake problem but a problem of cmake. cmake does not support batched build - already opened a bug long time ago because of this.


Christian

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