Re: slow compilation in windows

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

Renato Merli wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
>  Here, compilation of gtkmm projects is taking too much time to
> complete if on microsoft windows. Even a "hello world" take minutes to
> compile, its ridiculous.. The same happen with gcc and visual c++.
> Something must be wrong.... or not ?

For gcc, if you use make you can make use of more than one core of your 
processor via the -j option in case you have a multi-core CPU. 
Unfortunately MSVC (at least up to 9.0, I don't know about 10.0) does 
not support parallel building a single project.

You can speed up the compilation process a bit by making sure you don't 
include unnecessary header files. Especially, avoid including gtkmm.h. 
Instead, include the individual header files for the classes you use, 
such as gtkmm/window.h.

>   Used no extra options for gcc (just the ones from pkg-config) and
> the default config file that comes with gtkmm for visual c++.

Armin