incremental linking speed up link time very much

[Chris January]

> On Sunday 09 January 2005 21:34, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:52:47PM +0100, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:22:08PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 05 January 2005 19:44, Simon Rutishauser wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:04:40PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > found some time to fix the broken incremental 
> linking suspport 
> > > > > > for msvc in cvs. Now the turnaround time for changing qt 
> > > > > > sources, compile and link are very much reduced.
> > > > > > For example while searching the assistant default font 
> > > > > > problem, changing qfont_win.cpp, compiling and 
> linking the qt 
> > > > > > dll requires less than 5 seconds.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Happy hacking.
> > > > > > Ralf
> > > > >
> > > > > That sounds really great. Should this work with msvc 6 or are 
> > > > > you referring to the newer ones?
> > > >
> > > > I've tried this with msvc 7 aka msvc net. As far as I 
> know should 
> > > > this work with msvc 6 too.
> > >
> > > Should. Too bad it doesn't for me:
> > >
> > > --------------------Konfiguration: qtmt - Win32
> > > Debug--------------------
> > > Linker-Vorgang läuft...
> > > LINK : fatal error LNK1210: Interne ILK-Groessenbeschraenkung 
> > > ueberschritten; Sie muessen erneut mit /INCREMENTAL:NO binden.
> > > Fehler beim Ausführen von link.exe.
> > >
> > > English translation for those who don't speak german:
> > > fatal error LNK1210: Internal ILK-Size limit overrun; You have to 
> > > relink with /INCREMENTAL:NO
> > >
> > > Now I had a look at Google and the MS Knowdledge base. The former 
> > > doesn't help (found just two posts of people having the 
> same problem 
> > > and no solution) and the latter says that there was not enough 
> > > memory. Also found some HP Page for the Visual Fortran compiler - 
> > > there it says about not enough disk space.
> > > However I had 800 MB Free Memory (mostly Swap, but memory usage 
> > > never went above 200 MB during the incremental linking try-run 
> > > anyway) and 600 MB free disk space (at first, freed some 
> stuff later 
> > > and got 1 GB free disk space - didn't work either)

I have 1Gb RAM and about 1Gb swap and I get a similar error with MSVC.NET (I
don't remember the exact text) every time I've tried to use the incremental
linker.

Chris