Re: [cdt-dev] MSVC (was Build Again)

[Jesper Eskilson <jesper.eskilson@xxxxxx>]

On 2010-04-27 13:40, Axel Müller wrote:
> > On 2010-04-27 10:08, Axel Müller wrote:
>
> > > The visual compiler itself can do parallel builds. You need to
> > > add
>
> > > the compiler flag /MP? (? is the number of parallel builds).
>
> >
>
> > Yes, but that requires that all the source code you need to build
> > is
>
> > passed to cl.exe in one invokation, something the VS IDE can do,
> > but
>
> > makefiles typically don't. Maybe NMAKE has some special syntax to
> > handle
>
> > that case.
> There is no special syntax. You just pass the additional compiler
> flag to the compiler. We are using this at our company w/o any
> problems.

But if cl.exe is only invoked with one source file at a time, how can it 
parallellize over all the source files?  As I understand it, the /MP 
flag allows the compiler to parallellize over the source files it 
receives on the command line.

How does your NMAKE makefiles look which handles this?

--
/Jesper