[Interest] Slow compiling on Mac

[Konstantin Tokarev]

30.08.2012, 13:47, "Bo Elmgreen" <bo.elmgreen at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> We are developing a desktop application, that we target for several platforms, including MacOS. Previously, we have been building our application for MacOS using Xcode, but I would like to switch to QtCreator. The switch to the new IDE was relatively painless, but I have noticed that compiling in QtCreator is significantly slower. Instead of finishing in 8 minutes in Xcode, it now takes 14 minutes to build the application in QtCreator. I have used Qt 4.7.4 with a x86 32 bit tool chain (gcc in QtCreator and clang in Xcode) for the comparison.
>
> Is this a general problem, that we have to live with, or are there tricks we can use to speed up the compiling?

I bet you compare different compilers. By default Xcode uses clang, and QtCreator gcc 4.2, which is much slower.
Set up clang++ as C++ compiler, and it will be much faster.

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Regards,
Konstantin