[Interest] Faster Qt app build

[Jason H]

Depending on what you are doing... Remember the iOS build process does like 3 architectures, and for me, it takes forever to link. Meanwhile OSX compiles are adequate. I don't usually alter more than 1 file at a time, so it's just incremental. 



> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 at 1:34 PM
> From: "Nuno Santos" <nunosantos at imaginando.pt>
> To: "Qt Project" <interest at qt-project.org>
> Subject: [Interest] Faster Qt app build
>
> Hi,
> 
> On Windows, building a Qt app is blazing fast. It seems that jom takes the cpu cores to it’s maximum power. 
> 
> On Mac the GCC builds are really slow and passing the -jX argument doesn’t seem to make any difference. Is there a way to speed up builds? My projects have a lot of files now and compiling a build can take around 5 minutes on a i5 2.5 dual core CPU.
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nuno Santos
> Founder / CEO / CTO
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