[CMake] custom commands not run in parallel with Visual Studio (2010) generator

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Oct 12 09:55:48 EDT 2010


On 10/12/2010 9:09 AM, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that Visual Studio doesn't run custom commands added with
> add_custom_command in parallel. This means running moc and uic is slow
> on Windows. Is there something that can be done about this?
>

No, I don't think so, VS does not work like that.  It only does target 
parallelism.  Not per-command parallelism.  It never has don that... You 
can get the compiler to do it with the /MP flag, but not custom 
commands, unless the command itself supported it.

-Bill


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