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Demo version available. Just google incredibuild. One of the most well built pieces of software I have ever come across. It works as you would like all software should. It actually does what you expect from it. You install it on a bunch of computers in you network, in visual studio you hit incredibuild->build and of it goes, I building on a virtual 23GHz computer right now... :-) /Anders On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Colin Dunlop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sherman, > > > >> This is sort of off-topic but I'm sure interesting to the community > none the > >> less. I was on the phone with a fellow OSG developer earlier today > >> complaining how slow the builds are on Windows and how I have this > quad core > >> sitting here not being fully utilized by my compiler. > > strangely enough I also discovered this blog post for 2005 two weeks > ago after poking around the 2008 documentation and changes. Like > Gordon we also get some manifest "mt.exe" odd problems, but in > general I can live with them given the 8x speed-up in compilation ;) > I don't generally see too many of these problems to make it painful. > I guess it depends how often it happens and for how many libraries > and I personally never see it unless doing a Solution build from > the top where there are loads of project interdependencies happening. > > From my perspective the problems do not produce a bad or incorrect > build, just the odd library now and then failing to link which you > can manually re-link. Obviously if you miss the error then you'll > get a bad build or old library lying around although adding a pre > build event to remove the old version before the build can negate this. > We have one particular "legacy" library that contains 150 source files > and this /MT cuts full rebuild time from 80 to 11 minutes on my dual > quad-core. > > Perhaps adding it to the cmake as an optional flag would let people > try it for themselves and decide on whether it works for them. > > Gordon: > > > Now back in the good old days on good SGI 32 processor monster > > parallel build work like a charm and screamed along ...... > > Yup it's only taken 10 years for me to have 1/4 of the build power > on Windows of that humming beast of an SGI towel dryer in the > basement ;) > > Colin. > > > > sherman wilcox wrote: > > Gordon, the issues you encountered - were they obvious issues as in > > linker errors or were they more subtle like random crashes and the > > like? > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Gordon Tomlinson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> We avoid using this feature at work on our projects as we have found the > VS > >> linker and compiler do not always see eye to eye when using parallel > builds > >> and also find a lot of manifest issue, but that's our experience > >> > >> Now back in the good old days on good SGI 32 processor monster parallel > >> build work like a charm and screamed along ...... > >> > >> Regards > >> Gordon > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sherman > >> wilcox > >> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:34 PM > >> To: OpenSceneGraph Users > >> Subject: [osg-users] faster builds on multiproc systems - Visual Studio > >> 2005& 2008 > >> > >> This is sort of off-topic but I'm sure interesting to the community none > the > >> less. I was on the phone with a fellow OSG developer earlier today > >> complaining how slow the builds are on Windows and how I have this quad > core > >> sitting here not being fully utilized by my compiler. > >> He touted how his Mac could perform parallel builds and how much faster it > >> was. So off I went to see if there's a way to do this with my compiler, > >> Visual Studio 2005. Lo and behold I found an undocumented way to enable > >> multi-processor builds using VS 2005. I couldn't believe it. It was like > >> someone gave me a gift. > >> > >> > >> http://blog.280z28.org/archives/2007/10/17/ > >> > >> http://lahsiv.net/blog/?p=40 > >> > >> So, could some of you guys try this as well and let me know how you get > on? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> osg-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> osg-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > osg-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > -- ________________________________________________________________ Anders Backman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HPC2N/VRlab Phone: +46 (0)90-786 9936 Umea university Cellular: +46 (0)70-392 64 67 S-901 87 UMEA SWEDEN Fax: +46 90-786 6126 http://www.cs.umu.se/~andersb _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
