Can you logically break the project up into several smaller projects? This way, you can close the projects you are not actively working on, which speeds up the compilation significantly.
Also some folks use the command line compiler and Ant, and report better results(I use FB exclusively so far). Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Cotter Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Flex Builder issues with large projects Hi List, I'm having a lot of trouble with Flex Builder on a large project I'm working on and would really appreciate some advice if anyone has found themselves in a similar situation. The particular project I'm working on is approaching 30,000 lines of code and also includes a fair bit of embedded assets in the form of skins and images etc. I am building several different products from the same class library. The first problem is that compilation time is far too long. Typically 30 seconds or more even after very minor changes to the source code, about 2 minutes for a clean build. It has become very difficult to do testing in particular as the delay for compilation break up workflow too much. I thought I would try to solve this problem by using RSL from Flex Library Projects as mentioned here: http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=117 This does seem to greatly improve the compilation times, but has cased no end of problems with Flex Builder. Flex Builder seemed to become corrupted, would not allow me to add SWC files to projects, and even started to have problems rendering the user interface. I did a complete uninstall and reinstall of Flex Builder, but continued to have problems loading the projects. Flex builder takes a long time to start up, reports stack overflow errors, or simply will not start unless I remove the projects. I also tried using the Flex Builder 3 Beta, but also ran into [different] problems which prevented me from loading and compiling the projects. Obviously, it's becoming pretty frustrating and inhibiting further development. So my question is... Has anybody experienced similar problems with Flex Builder, or know of ways to optimise compilation times on large projects? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Lach
