[Insight-developers] Long CMake configuration time on Windows?

[David Cole]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>> 1st configures of ITK with Visual Studio typically take on the order
>> of 5 to 7 minutes, with each try_compile operation taking on the order
>> of 1 second.
>>
>> Over an hour total and 10 seconds each is indeed very slow...
>>
>> Do you happen to have a virus checker installed that's analyzing files
>> in the build tree as they're being produced?
>
> I do have a virus checker enabled. I'll rerun with it off and report
> the results.
>
> Cory
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday I configured ITK from the latest git master with CMake on
>>> Windows 7 with Visual Studio 9 as the compiler.
>>>
>>> The initial configuration step in CMake took over an hour! Each of the
>>> tests for the existence of headers and type size checks take about 10
>>> seconds to run, and there are many such tests.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else seeing this, or is my system particularly slow? I have
>>> a new laptop with a quad core i7. On the same laptop running Ubuntu in
>>> a VirtualBox VM with a Windows 7 host system, configuration takes a
>>> minute or two at most.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Cory
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cory Quammen
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>>> Department of Computer Science
>>> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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> --
> Cory Quammen
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> Department of Computer Science
> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>

If it is much faster with the virus checker off, you should be able to
exclude your build directory and sub-directories from virus checking,
so that you don't have to disable it completely...