On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 07:17:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2017-10-11 21:57, Eduard Staniloiu wrote:
Hello,
I've hit the following problem on this PR [0]:
The Windows 32bit build fails with the error: "more than 32767
symbols in object file" [1].
After taking a look in `win32.mak`, I've seen that we are
bundling multiple source files into a single object (which is
the issue here), instead of compiling each source file into
it's corresponding object and then linking the objects
together.
Is there a reason behind doing so, or should we rewrite the
Windows makefiles?
It's faster to compile when passing multiple files to the
compiler at once. It doesn't have to run the compiler on the
same files over and over again.
I'm not convinced it's faster, as making a change in one of the
bundled files will cause all the files in the object bundle to
get recompiled, instead of compiling only the changed file and
linking the objects.
