Could someone give me tips to increase building speed in visual studio 2008?
I have a large project with many module with full source. Every single time it's built, every files are rebuilt, some of them were not changed. Can i prevent these file to be rebuilt?
I turned the property "Enable Minimum rebuild" /Gm on but the compiler threw this warning
Command line warning D9030 : '/Gm' is incompatible with multiprocessing; ignoring /MP switch
Every tips to increase building speed will help me much. Thanks,
One simple way is to compile in debug mode(aka zero optimizations), this of course is only for internal testing.
you can also use precompiled headers* to speed up processing, or break off 'unchanging' segments into static libs, removing those from the recompile.
*with /MP you need to create the precompiled header before doing multiprocess compilation, as /MP can read but not write according to MSDN