Re: ccache for Windows

[Philip Chee]

On 05/11/2012 22:37, Tito wrote:
>
> The compilation of Thunderbird in Linux is so much faster when ccache is
> also part of the compilation process. Thus I was wondering if there is a
> way to compile thundebird/firefox with some kind of a caching system for
> windows that will speed up the process. What I mean here is it does not
> have to be ccache, although in my opinion ccache is doing great job.
>
> I have found a guide ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ccache ) how to
> enable ccache for mac and Linux however there is nothing mentioned for
> windows. Does something like that already exists? Mybe someone have
> tried ccache compilation with cygwin , msys or something similar and was
> using ccache simultaneously.
>
> I have read about IncrediBuild however I have never used this software
> before and was wondering if it could be used at all together with
> comm-central. Or there is another way to speed up the compilation in
> windows. I do not mean distcc or redirecting stdout.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Konstantin

According to google there are a couple of (pretty dead) forks that claim
to port ccache to windows:

<http://gitorious.org/ccache-win>
<http://code.google.com/p/ccache-win32/>

Perhaps someone can see if the patches from those two forks can be
updated to work in the current ccache.
<http://code.google.com/p/ccache-win32/wiki/WhyNativeWin32Ccache>

There is also something called clcache.py:
<https://github.com/frerich/clcache>
See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689157
Bug 689157 - Add support for building with clcache/ccache on Windows
RESOLVED FIXED

I've never tried any of them so caveat emptor.

Phil

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