On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Noel Grandin <n...@peralex.com> wrote: > On 2012-05-07 14:08, Andras Timar wrote: >> >> Out of interest, could you please share the know-how of building with >> RAM-Drive under Windows 7? Thanks, Andras > > > (0) I'm building under Windows7-64, using the latest Cygwin release, and the > Visual Studio 2008 compiler. > > (1) I use the excellent free (donationware) IMDisk utility to create a > ram-disk. I appear to need around 5G of space for this RAM-disk. > http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk > During the build, at peak this machine was using around 10G of RAM. > > (2) run configure with the --with-solver-and-workdir-root option pointing at > the ram-drive. For example, mine looks like > --with-solver-and-workdir-root=/cygdrive/D > where D: is my RAM-drive. > > (3) You need Matus Kukan's patch to use mixed paths under cygwin (at least > until it gets committed). > > And voila! It builds in about an hour on this machine (8-core AMD processor)
As oppose to how long before ? iow what is the gain ? Norbert _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
