[CMake] Did anyone manage to get incremental linking working with NMake generator?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 15:12:46 EST 2010


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/9/2010 12:32 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>
>>> Haven't been following this thread closely, but changing the handling of
>>> /INCREMENTAL is a pain, at least in VS 2005 and 2008. Here is some code
>>> we use to *disable* /INCREMENTAL. With a little creativity, you could
>>> probably use this to forcibly *enable* /INCREMENTAL :):
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I look into this for disabling incremental linking since it
>> never works well for me and is more trouble than its worth..
>>
>
> I find it to work very well.   What trouble are you having with it?  I have
> never had a problem with it, and it does save time.
>
Bill,
Sorry, I take that back, I just checked and I no longer have it
disabled in either of my large projects. I remember having problems in
the past (not sure what the were) before I used CMake (before June
2008) and that I always automatically disabled it in all visual studio
builds.

John


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