[vtk-developers] very long build times

[John Biddiscombe]

I've not been using Visual studio long for building vtk, but it's taking
about 20 hours per go. (I left it running last night and it's still only
half way through Graphics - same trouble last time I updated several weeks
ago).

It looks like CPU usage is hovering around 2% so I suspect this is not a vtk
issue, but rather a disk thrashing problem. Is there any kind of tweak that
one needs to make (either in CMake or in the project options) to encourage a
faster build. It didn't used to be like this (ie it used to build quite
quickly in VS when I first started using it).

Building from Cmd line using
"C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET/Common7/IDE/devenv.com"
VTK.sln /build Debug /project ALL_BUILD

1.7GHz AMD + 768MB + Virtual ram = 4GB.

Any tips greatfully received.

JB