Sven Neumann wrote:
which is a severe shortcoming of the build environment (AFAIK, Msys
uses cygwin which is awfully slow due to a large number of
reasons).
This sounds like if you had a clue on what is causing the slowliness
of running configure on Cygnus. I recently compiled the Blinkenlights
software on Windows and noticed this shortcoming as well. I wondered
what might be the cause and if there are ways to work around it. Are
there any?
As a data point, I use a (optimized build) mingw cross-compiler
hosted on linux, and the raw compilation itself takes a lot longer
(50% longer, or more) than the same compiler version built
for a native-compile. I really don't know why that would be. The
only thing I can think of would be if the <windows.h>/<windef.h>/etc
headers that get pulled into just about every file on a win32
build expand into monsterous evil and add measurably to the unit
compilation time.
--Adam
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