[Qt-creator] speed up Build process

[Zine eddine Bendjaballah]

Hi,

I'm running windows xp OS.

> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:41:55 +0100
> From: andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de
> To: qt-creator at trolltech.com
> Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] speed up Build process
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:37:44AM +0100, Piotr Rak wrote:
> > 2009/1/9 Zine eddine Bendjaballah <zineeddine.b at hotmail.com>:
> > > I'm new with qt, I'm using qt creator since recently. It takes more time to
> > > build and run a program.
> > > And when I run in debug mode,the running time takes several seconds.
> > >
> > > I'm used to RAD environment, like Delphi, and the time to compile and run a
> > > program is insignificant.
> > >
> > > Is it proper to Qt programs, or is there some configurations to do to
> > > accelerate the build and debug process.
> > 
> > I assume below, that you run linux, or atleast use gnu toolchain.
> 
> Unlikely, as he mentions Delphi ;-}
> 
> Of course, trying to make comparisions is hard in this case.
> 
> > If it is not case, I really don't know how to help you. Maybe someone
> > else knows.
> > 
> > To compile faster, you might try setting up ccache (http://ccache.samba.org/).
> > Also adding -jN argument to 'make' command might help, where N usually
> > is number of your processor cores +1, like -j3 for dual core. Hmm,
> > maybe Qt-creator could do something like this out of box?
> 
> This has been discussed a while ago, and I still don't think it's
> a good idea. People using build farms want more than that, and there
> are several possible solution outside Qt Creator like using the 
> MAKEARGS environment variable.
> 

Can you tell me more about how to configure MAKEARGS environment, and how it can make build process faster?

> > About startup time of your code, well...
> > maybe checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelinking, I never tried
> > that for development though. For debugging you could use striped from
> > debugging symbols versions of some libraries (those you know you don't
> > really need/want to debug). Please check 'man strip' for more info.
> 
> Almost all of the debugger startup time is indeed due to the loading
> of debug symbols.
> 
> Regards,
> Andre'
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Regards,

Zinou.

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