[Geany-Devel] Building geany on Windows is slow; libgeany

[Nick Treleaven]

It's Windows Vista, I don't have a Linux system available. Building
libgeany and geany.exe takes at least a minute with autotools. I
resurrected the Windows makefiles and updated them to build libgeany.dll,
they only take ~2s to do that.

Commit:
https://github.com/ntrel/geany/commit/421affbbc92b66a2a128537c97ddbe0f36be89d1
Branch (contains unrelated work):
https://github.com/ntrel/geany/tree/dtags

On 26 January 2018 at 08:29, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:

> Am 25.01.2018 um 18:27 schrieb Colomban Wendling:
>
>> Le 25/01/2018 à 04:38, Lex Trotman a écrit :
>>
>>> On 25 January 2018 at 22:19, Nick Treleaven <ntrel002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I hadn't built Geany for a while, I found the MSYS2 build instructions
>>>> with
>>>> autotools. Libtool seems incredibly slow - mainly for linking but even
>>>> compiling is slow. I've tried disabling AV to no effect. Are there any
>>>> simple workarounds? The modify-rebuild cycle is painful now.
>>>>
>>> Long time no hear.  I can't help with Windows build speeds but can say
>>> that the Linux build does not appear to be significantly slower
>>> AFAICT.
>>>
>> No.  By default libtool might build object files twice, one static and
>> one shared, just in case it might need both, but I disabled it ages ago
>> as we don't need both
>> (https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/723f4302e0d7bbd938c78
>> 9b9730366f7c7e03080).
>>   Maybe check if libtool on Windows doesn't enforce something stupid like
>> that.
>>
>> But it might also be that MSYS2 is slow or something, but that Thomas
>> might know more about.
>>
>
> From my experience (it's been some time) shell scripts (i.e. configure) is
> horribly slow (disabling AV helps a lot but it's still bad), the
> compilation itself shouldn't be significantly slower than on Linux.
>
> Can you compare a against Linux builds and post some numbers? Also, what
> kind of system is this?
>
> Best regards
>
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