[fpc-devel] Unit dependencies

[Sven Barth]

Adriaan van Os <adriaan at adriaan.biz> schrieb am Mi., 4. Feb. 2026, 13:46:

> Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
>
> >     Another question. Has anybody considered running the external
> >     assembly (e.g. on macOS) in a
> >     separate process ? That would greatly reduce build times of large
> >     projects.
> >
> >
> > Ehm... The external assembly *is* run in a separate process, that's the
> > point of it being *external*.
>
> You are right, of course. What I mean is — is the compiler waiting for
> that process to finiish ? It
> would have to wait before starting the linking phase, but not before
> starting compiling other units.
>

The compiler needs to wait for the assembler to exit, it does not have a
concept for asynchronously started processes.

Regards,
Sven

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