My current project builds a bunch (30) different plugins that do NOT depend on
each other. One of those plugins has about 200 files of highly templated C++
code to build which takes a while to compile and link. Meanwhile the other
plugins only have about 20-40 files of "run-of-the-mill" c++ codes which all
compile in a reasonably fast time. Is there a way to give a hint to CMake or
the build system (Ninja or Visual Studio) to start the build of that target
before the others? I know about the set target dependencies which in a way
would solve the problem but I would hate to use that since there isn't an
actual dependency and it really wouldn't work anyways. The link time for this
large plugin is on the order of minutes on a FAST machine (Core i7 8700k
overclocked).
Are the targets treated in lexographical order perhaps if there are no
dependencies? I would definintely consider renaming the plugin if that meant it
would kick off earlier.
Any suggestions would be great.
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