The current buildtool used for win32 development does not support parallel build. Th parallel option in make -j2 spawns an other compiler process while still waiting for the first file to be compiled. So you only should extend the N in the -jN option to the number of cores (or even Hyperthreads) you have in your CPU. On the otherhand there is a tool "distcc" for ditributed build that I used prior I got a new motherboard. This runs the precompiler on your machine and sends the source code after the precompilation to an other machine(s) for compilation. This limits the prerequisites on the other machines so you only need the same compiler. No matter all the the libs :-) But there is no distcc for native win32 :-(
However if cmake is able to build inkscape on win32 you would be able to add an other -j2 option as you like.
HTH,
Adib. ---
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...1689...> wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to do a parallel build using mingw32 and btool on Windows? I've tried adding -j4 to build.xml, but that parameter is not being accepted.
I'm bisecting, but this could be so much faster on my quadcore...
Diederik
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