Little tipp - for speeding up the build process in QtCreator
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I've heard a little trick:
In QtCreator load your project, select the "Projects" button on the left. Build settings dialog is up. See Build Steps, select "Make:" Details. In Make arguments put a "-j".
You'll see something like this: "Make: mingw32-make.exe -j in C:\Projects...yourproject..."
This tells the make, that use ALL of the processor in a multiprocessor machine (my machine has 4 processor).
In my machine the "Rebuild all" process is significantly speeder than before :) -
Interesting. I do know and use -j but always specify number of cores myself. Does it detect HyperThreading "cores" as well?
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Hah, cool! Then I shall stop using custom core count at once :D
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Please be aware that parallel building can and will cause problems, above all on Windows (with mingw32-make), and it should be seen as somewhat experimental.
For example building Qt5 using <code>-j</code> will result in a quite unstable build process, breaking for no apparent reason, mostly because make didn't get the build order right again.
So if you are running into strange build problems try removing <code>-j</code>.
And be warned that the rest of resource utilization works quite well; so your workstation might be rendered unusable during build - so depending on the size of your project your coffee consumption might dramatically increase ;-)
