[fpc-devel] FPC/Lazarus Rebuild performance

[Dimitri Smits]

----- "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org> schreef:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Juha Manninen (gmail) wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 11 September 2010 13:40:26 Martin Schreiber wrote:
> >> And why does the Delphi commandline compiler (dcc32) not need this
> IDE
> >> assistance?
> >
> > My guess is that dcc32 works as an integrated make program +
> compiler and thus
> > doesn't start external processes for each file.
> 
> No it does not. 
> dcc32 compiles 1 file only, but does compile any additional units it
> needs.
> 
> You'll need makefiles as well if you use dcc32 (or any other build
> tool).
> 
> I have an extended build system using dcc32, and it takes easily up to
> 15
> minutes to compile a 1.5 million lines project.
> 

that is my experience as well. (using 'want.exe' aka windows 'ant')

it implies though that you can merely compile your .dpk and .dpr files to get everything compiled ;-)

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits