Re: [Boost-cmake] Parallel Builds on Windows (Was: Analysis of the current CMake system)

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Parallel Builds on Windows (Was: Analysis of the current CMake system)
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-05 10:51:52

There are those in the CMake community that successfully combine "unix  
makefiles" with the Visual Studio Compilers to perform parallel builds.

http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-June/022178.html  is one of  
the relevant threads.

Here is another thread that has some important information about  
exactly what versions of gmake and others to use.

http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-April/021336.html

Hope some of that helps
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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson_at_[hidden]
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio

On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Ingo Albrecht wrote:

> Further, I have to note that command-line VS builds should be
> supported for one simple reason: nmake does not support parallel
> builds and probably never will. This makes VS the easiest way of
> running a parallel build on Windows (locally or distributed with
> additional tools). GNU make from MSYS is out of the question
> because MSYS seems far from production-grade.