File by file or all files at the same time.

[boyd]

If there are issues building all files at once, which I doubt, they are  
bound to be solved soon. And I don't think GDC will have the same issues,  
since it has a different back-end than DMD.

Like others say, how you build it it's up to you. There are several  
factors that might be involved:

- Do you need fast compile times? building all files at once is probably  
faster if all files need to be compiled. If only a few files need to be  
recompiled then the fastest way is to compile every file seperately.

- Is memory a problem? building the files one at a time should take less  
memory.

These factors usually only apply to huge programs and are pretty much  
negligable otherwise.

Personally I build one file at the time. No need to compile files that  
haven't changed that way. I don't like the inefficiency of building all  
files, eventhough I don't think I would notice the difference in most  
cases.

I'd suggest you to just pick one. Trying them both out yourself probably  
takes less time than waiting for the right answer to come along here.  
Since you're worried about issues that might occur with an all in one  
compile, why not try one at a time.

Cheers,
Boyd.

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On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:55:43 -0400, lurker <lurker1024 at mailinator.com>  
wrote:

> Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
>
>> "lurker" <lurker1024 at mailinator.com> wrote in message
>> news:g7qo3o$2vff$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> It's entirely up to you.  Or rather, it _should_ be up to your build  
>> tool,
>> because if you're not using rebuild or bud, you're probably doin it  
>> wrong.
>
> No, I'm not using DSSS. Or rather, I can't use DSSS or bud because of  
> some stupid requirement.
>
> Still, I remember there where some issues building all files at once  
> with DMD and wanted to know if it's still the case and if GDC has the  
> same problem also.
>
> I need to build DLLs, Lib files and some EXEs.
>
> Thanks