In my system, deal_II.lib is about 400MB and deal_II.g.lib is almost 2GB. Maybe the issue is somehow related to these reports:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/995447/linker-is-hanging-while-linking-some-project-in-debug-x64-configuration https://www.gittprogram.com/question/1740272_x64-linker-hanging.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23494142/ms-c-2012-linker-hangs-but-only-in-debug-mode-x64 I think i'll wait for the patch allowing to build deal.II as a dynamic library. I usually develop in Ubuntu but i also need my program to run on Windows. For now, compiling only in Release mode is good enough. Regards, Tulio Em quarta-feira, 27 de julho de 2016 13:31:53 UTC-3, Matthias Maier escreveu: > > The last time I checked (statically) linking an executable against the > debug or release version was on the order of several minutes. > > We currently do not support shared libraries (dlls) on Windows. This > might change with [1] though. > > [1] https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/2807 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdealii%2Fdealii%2Fpull%2F2807&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEeLcLhls4Zo2XgRQWlKKBOPqhUSA> > > > -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
