[CMake] visual studio parallel build

[j s]

I don't think so, but this article claims that by specifying multiple c++
files at the same time, the Visual C++ compiler will parallelize them:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601970/how-do-i-utilise-all-the-cores-for-nmake

Regards,

Juan

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>wrote:

> BTW do you know if it is possible to do a parallel build with nmake? (like
> -jN with GNU make)
> -- Dominik
>
> John Drescher wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:16 PM, j s<j.s4403 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess I won't be using the parallel option in Visual Studio, then.
>>>
>>>  I have found it rare to have issues like this even on quad core
>> machines but it does happen. I build on 5 or so different machines
>> from 2 to 4 cores.
>>
>>  A
>>> non-deterministic build order is not worth the risk.
>>>
>>>  I understand.
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