On Wednesday 09 of January 2013, Lubos Lunak wrote: > Looks what I found under the tree! Faster make for Cygwin. Granted, I had > put it there first, but still nice.
Oh well, looks like somebody actually does develop LO on Windows :). So on a related note, two more things that might be helpful but probably many people don't know: - "make dev-install" works on windows these days too. So there's no need to fiddle with the .msi or similar, just go to install/ . It is not symlinked like on Linux, but "make dev-update" after each time something's been built handles that (in fact I use non-symlinked dev-install even on Linux). - Tinderbox #6 has been building with precompiled headers enabled for a while too, so I guess that means it kinda works and non-PCH builds don't easily break PCH. So those who actually develop on Windows can give --enable-pch a try if you feel brave, as while I know it builds, I don't know what it's like to actually develop with PCH enabled. Note that only several libraries have PCH enabled so far, and see below for some details about using PCH that I should write to a PCH wiki page whenever I get to creating it. I expect the chances of PCH builds breaking non-PCH builds are much higher if not careful. PS: Don't get way too excited. It doesn't make things _that_ fast. Details about PCH, copy&paste from IRC: 1) the pch includes all includes, even LO ones, except the ones from the module itself (i.e. you change something in editeng => whole sw rebuilds) 2) using PCH makes it easy to forget needed #include, so unless sure I think it'd be good to rebuild those changed files again with 'make ENABLE_PCH=' 3) dependencies don't work quite right when switching back and forth, so 'make ENABLE_PCH=' on a clean build probably won't trigger any rebuild if some headers have been modified in fact I think a library may not link if all the .o's haven't been built one way or another, but for the checking for #include it should be enough to touch all the .cxx files and see if those build fine -- Lubos Lunak l.lu...@suse.cz _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
